infumate

present singular third person infumates · participle present infumating · participle past infumated · past infumated

1. transitiveTo dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

comparative more infumate · superlative most infumate

1. Somewhat translucent with a mottled smokey appearance.

   The legs, gaster, and pronotum are reddish, and the short wings are infumate except for a pale band across the middle.

   2023, R. M. Bohart, A. S. Menke, Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision

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   The posterior wings are transparent and iridescent, infumate at the extreme base along the dorsal margin, and their nervuration is to a large extent pale, becoming dark towards the apex.

   1913, R.C.L. Perkins, “Neuroptera”, in David Sharp, editor, Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, page 40

   I am sure Frederick Smith has correctly named a pair in the British Museum, with the whole upper and to a less extend the lower basal cells infumate and the apical alar infumation approaching closely to the stigma; one probably came from Bates and the female, which lacks the single black marks on the second and third segments, was acquired about 1839 through Mr. Mornay from Brazil.

   1915, Claude Morley, A Revision of the Ichneumonidae Based on the Collection in the British Museum, page 20