[1655–65; ‹ L fusc(us) dark, tawny, dusky + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1655–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: intensity, loaded, mechanism, neutralize, organism-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)
Examples of 'fuscous' in a sentence
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Common and fuscous blights of bean are diseases widely distributed in the world.
Irene Maria Gatti de Almeida, Lucas Matheus Rivero Rodrigues, Luís Otávio SaggionBeriam 2015, 'Xanthomonas fuscans subsp. fuscans causing wilt symptoms in bean plants (Phaseolusvulgaris) in Brazil', Arquivos do Instituto Biológicohttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-16572015000100300&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
1 was fuscous green color compared to the standard soap (which was white to pale yellow).
Girgis, Adel Y. 2003, 'Production of high quality castile soap from high rancid olive oil', Grasas y Aceiteshttp://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/view/235/236. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)