infuscate

infuscate
/in fus"kayt, -kit/, adj. Entomol.
darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
Also, infuscated.
[1640-50; < L infuscatus ptp. of infuscare to darken, discolor. See IN-2, FUSCOUS, -ATE1]

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