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Definition of Rufescent
1. a. Reddish; tinged with red.
Definition of Rufescent
1. Adjective. Reddish; tinged with red. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rufescent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rufescent
Literary usage of Rufescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... or greenish-blue, elytra finely punctate- striate, apex of the abdomen rufescent.
... more or less rufescent at the base : thorax and scutellum black, ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Colour uniform dusky or dusky slate, with the tips of the fur rufescent; fur
long; large sebaceous anal glands ; smell very powerful. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1895)
"General plumage rufescent ; head and nape black with a greenish lustre, especially
on the nape ; edges of the feathers on the sides of the head streaked ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"Much more rufescent; throat and sides of head darker; shafts of rectrices brown
... Exposed surface of secondaries decidedly less rufescent than tail. e. ..."
5. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"Compared with the latter they are much more rufescent above, and, because of
this, somewhat darker. As in other races, there is a considerable range of ..."
6. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Similar to summer adults but less rufescent above (the general color grayish
brown streaked and striped with blackish, ..."
7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... a streak over and beyond the eye, and the whole under parts rufescent, brightest
ou the flanks and thighs; lores and upper part of ear-coverts greyish; ..."
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