crepuscular
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or resembling twilight; dim; indistinct.
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Zoology. appearing or active in the twilight, as certain bats and insects.
adjective
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of or like twilight; dim
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(of certain insects, birds, and other animals) active at twilight or just before dawn
Etymology
Origin of crepuscular
First recorded in 1660–70; crepuscule + -ar 1
Example Sentences
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The catalog’s full-page reproductions, in spectacular colors or crepuscular monochromes, are frequently transporting.
Over on YouTube, their crepuscular 2005 album track Take Me Somewhere Nice has been streamed 85 million times.
From BBC
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.
From Los Angeles Times
Horns enter and the song begins to feel like a futuristic take on the crepuscular, narcotic blues of Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.”
From New York Times
The wolf ignites a crepuscular uncertainty about what’s fact and what’s fable, about how to differentiate between bared teeth and lolling tongue.
From Washington Post
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