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crepuscular
[ kri-puhs-kyuh-ler ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling twilight; dim; indistinct.
- Zoology. appearing or active in the twilight, as certain bats and insects.
crepuscular
/ ɪˈʌʊə /
adjective
- of or like twilight; dim
- (of certain insects, birds, and other animals) active at twilight or just before dawn
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of crepuscular1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of crepuscular1
Example Sentences
Over on YouTube, their crepuscular 2005 album track Take Me Somewhere Nice has been streamed 85 million times.
The study, published last month in the journal Biological Conservation, found that Southland mountain lions became more nocturnal and less crepuscular — i.e., active at dusk or dawn — in popular recreation areas.
Horns enter and the song begins to feel like a futuristic take on the crepuscular, narcotic blues of Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.”
The wolf ignites a crepuscular uncertainty about what’s fact and what’s fable, about how to differentiate between bared teeth and lolling tongue.
The first, for bass flute and electronics, establishes a crepuscular atmosphere with spare, breathy gestures that grow more ragged, as if on the run.
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