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infuscation

infuscation noun: the act of darkening.

Noun

infuscation (countable and uncountable, plural infuscations)

  1. The act of darkening.
  2. The state of being dark; obscurity.
  3. A 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

Forms of infuscation

pluralinfuscations

Questions about infuscation

What does infuscation mean?
Infuscation means the act of darkening.
What part of speech is infuscation?
Infuscation is a noun.
What is the plural of infuscation?
The plural of infuscation is infuscations.

Words near infuscation in the dictionary

  1. infusates
  2. infuscate
  3. infuscated
  4. infuscates
  5. infuscating
  6. infuscation
  7. infuscations
  8. infuse
  9. infused
  10. infused oil
  11. infused oils

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