fuscation

A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.

Noun

  1. A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
    • It is true other species have some fuscation but with them it is slight, not noticeable casually, and has usually been omitted in descriptions. - 1911, A. A. Girault, “Hymenoptera”, in Transactions of the American...
    • The same as victoria but the scape is also dark red, including also the long pedicel and the first two funicle joints (and a part of the third); the abdoment is reddish only along the median line of the venter; the fore...
    • Air-tube index 6.5 to 7.0, without any fuscation near the center; - 1954, Richard H. Foote., The Larvae and Pupae of the Mosquitoes Belonging to the Culex Subgenera Melanoconion and Moschlostyrax, page 60::

Origin

From Latin fuscare, fuscatum (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).