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Definition: Crepuscular |
CrepuscularAdjective1. Like twilight; dim; "the evening's crepuscular charm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crepuscular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Crepuscular is a term used of animals to indicate they are active during the twilight.Crepuscular is thus in contrast with diurnal and nocturnal. Many animals that are casually described as nocturnal are in fact crepuscular, though animals that are crepuscular may be active on a bright moonlit night.
Within the definition of crepuscular are the terms "vespertine" and "matinine", denoting animals active in the evening and morning respectively.
Crepuscular mammals include the common mouse and rat. Crepuscular birds include Common Nighthawk and Spotted Crake.
Some species have different habits in the absence of human or other predators. Thus the Short-eared Owl is diurnal on those of the Galapagos islands that do not have buzzard species, but crepuscular on the others.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crepuscular."
Crosswords: Crepuscular |
| English words defined with "crepuscular": Burhinus oedicnemus ♦ caprimulgid, Crepusculine ♦ goatsucker, ground roller ♦ moth ♦ night heron, night raven, nightjar ♦ stone curlew ♦ thick-knee. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crepuscular": Crepusculine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Crepuscular" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (crepuscular), Romanian (crepuscular, darkling, dusk, twilight, twilit), Spanish (crepuscular, dim, twilight). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Crepuscular rays illuminate half the sky - Antarctic sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Crepuscular Chair" by Brian Corll Commentary: "Barnacle encrusted plastic chair found on the beach." |
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| "Crepuscular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crepuscular" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
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Expressions using "crepuscular": crepuscular arch ♦ crepuscular ray. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "crepuscular": anti-crepuscular. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crepuscular | 8 |
crepuscular ray | 4 |
crepuscular fauna | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "crepuscular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zymtë (black, cheerless, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry). (various references) | |
Arabic | غسقي (dusky), شفقي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сумрачен (dun, dusk, tenebrous, twilighted, twilit), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), здрачен (darkling, dusk). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黄昏 (Dusk). (various references) | |
Czech | soumraèný. (various references) | |
Danish | tusmoerkebue (bright segment, crepuscular arch, twilight arch). (various references) | |
Dutch | schemeringsboog (bright segment, crepuscular arch, twilight arch). (various references) | |
Finnish | hämärän kaari (bright segment, crepuscular arch, twilight arch). (various references) | |
French | crépusculaire. (various references) | |
German | dämmerig (dim, dusky, faint, twilight). (various references) | |
Greek | λυκοφωτόσ, αμυδρόσ (dim, hazy, twilight). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szürkületi (twilit). (various references) | |
Italian | crepuscolare. (various references) | |
Manx | dorraghey (dark, dun, dusk, dusky, enigmatic, fade out, gloomy, obscure), breck-ghoo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epuscularcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | crepuscular. (various references) | |
Romanian | crepuscular (darkling, dusk, twilight, twilit). (various references) | |
Russian | сумеречный (dusk, twilit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | večernji (evening, vespertine), sumračan (dim, dusky, somber, sombre). (various references) | |
Spanish | crepuscular (dim, twilight). (various references) | |
Swedish | skymnings-. (various references) | |
Turkish | alaca karanlıkta çıkan, alaca karanlık (dusk, gloaming, owl-light, twilight). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тьмяний (dim, dingy, dull, glaucous, glazed, glazy, lacklustre, obscure, opaque, sad, wan, waterish), нічний (night, nightly, nocturnal), присмерковий (dusk, dusky, twilight). (various references) | |
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"Crepuscular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cerpuscular, crapuscular, crepescular, crepiscular, crepuscularity, crepusular, crespucular, crespuscular, cropuscular, groupuscular. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-l-p-r-r-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: specular, supercar. | |
-4 letters: accrues, accuser, aculeus, apercus, capsule, carcels, carpels, carpers, carrels, clasper, cupulae, cupular, cupules, curares, curlers, larrups, parcels, parrels, parures, perusal, placers, pleuras, pursuer, reclasp, recusal, saccule, scaleup, scalper, scarcer, scarper, scauper, scraper, scruple, secular, specula, sprucer, surreal, upcurls, uprears, upscale, usurper. | |
-5 letters: accrue, accuse, apercu, aureus, calces, capers, carcel, carers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-l-p-r-r-s-u-u" | |
+5 letters: superspectacular. | |
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