Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, clouded with brown; darkened with a fuscous shade or cloud: as, apex of the wing infuscate.
- To darken; make dusky; obscure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To darken; to make black; to obscure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
darken ; to makeblack orobscure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings
Etymologies
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Latin infuscatus, past participle of infuscare; prefix in- in + fuscare to make dark, from fuscus dark.
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biocon commented on the word infuscate
Infuscate (adjective) means clouded or darkened (Oxford English Dictionary).
August 13, 2011