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词汇 fuliginous
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Definition of fuliginous in English:

fuliginous

adjective fjuːˈlɪdʒɪnəsfjuˈlɪdʒənəs
literary
  • Sooty; dusky.

    〈诗/文〉充满烟灰的;朦胧的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Neil Warmington's set, with its upstage floral aquarium and gleaming patch of AstroTurf, also evokes a world that is garishly strange without lapsing into the clichés of fuliginous futurism.
    • I turned my head and could just see the flames licking the sky, and clouds of fuliginous, black smoke dissipating into the warm summer air.
    • The colour of these larger hyphae, like those in the cortex, deepens with age to a fuliginous shade or to black, eventually causing the wood to appear cinereous to the naked eye.
    • It was colored white, a stark contrast to the fuliginous coloring of its companion unit.
    • They were as different as night and day, but both bore the obvious mark of their heritage, the girl in her doll-like features, the boy in his fuliginous hair and slanted eyes the color of sapphires.

Origin

Late 16th century (originally describing a vapour as 'thick and noxious'): from late Latin fuliginosus, from fuligo, fuligin- 'soot'.

Rhymes

indigenous, oxygenous, polygynous, rubiginous, vertiginous

Definition of fuliginous in US English:

fuliginous

adjectivefjuˈlɪdʒənəsfyo͞oˈlijənəs
literary
  • Sooty; dusky.

    〈诗/文〉充满烟灰的;朦胧的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Neil Warmington's set, with its upstage floral aquarium and gleaming patch of AstroTurf, also evokes a world that is garishly strange without lapsing into the clichés of fuliginous futurism.
    • The colour of these larger hyphae, like those in the cortex, deepens with age to a fuliginous shade or to black, eventually causing the wood to appear cinereous to the naked eye.
    • It was colored white, a stark contrast to the fuliginous coloring of its companion unit.
    • They were as different as night and day, but both bore the obvious mark of their heritage, the girl in her doll-like features, the boy in his fuliginous hair and slanted eyes the color of sapphires.
    • I turned my head and could just see the flames licking the sky, and clouds of fuliginous, black smoke dissipating into the warm summer air.

Origin

Late 16th century (originally describing a vapor as ‘thick and noxious’): from late Latin fuliginosus, from fuligo, fuligin- ‘soot’.

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