infuscation
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
infuscation (countable and uncountable, plural infuscations)
- The act of darkening.
- The state of being dark; obscurity.[1]
- A dark patch or marking.
- 1959, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Bulletin:
- 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.
References[edit]
- ^ Samuel Johnson (1755 April 15) “INFUSCATION”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volumes I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC.
- “infuscation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.