fuscous.

Dark and dusky, especially in a gray-brown shade.

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• fuscous plumage

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Fuscous plumage blended with the bark.

A fuscous band marked the stone.

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Primary category: literary. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a color or relational classification; degree comparisons depend on descriptive context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.