infuscation

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noun

The act of darkening.

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Meanings

nouninfuscation (countable and uncountable, plural infuscations)

plural infuscations

  1. countableuncountableThe act of darkening.
  2. countableuncountableThe state of being dark; obscurity.
  3. countableuncountableA dark patch or marking.

    We consider, until more specimens are discovered, interruptus as only a subspecies of poecilogaster as the major differences between the two are color intensity of the wing infuscations, and of pile and tomentum.

    1959, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Bulletin
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Chicago

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