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Definition of Fuliginous
1. a. Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
Definition of Fuliginous
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or resembling soot; sooty, dusky. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fuliginous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuliginous
Literary usage of Fuliginous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... that could not be suppressed, until the fierce white light of Semitic monotheism
almost flickered out amid the fuliginous exhalations of Hinduism. ..."
2. A Discourse of the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science by Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1828)
"[fuliginous Ants: a is the male, t the worker, and c the female.] [Represents a
section of the nest carved by the fuliginous ant out of the solid trunk of ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"broods over the ground; fuliginous vapours float; the air curls round and round,
in dizzying waves ; wreaths of smoke entwine us; we hardly know where we ..."
4. Catalogue of the Specimens of Neuropterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker (1852)
"... and tarsi brownish : wings very slightly fuliginous, rather darker along the
hind borders and ..."
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