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Crepusculous   Listen
adjective
Crepusculous, Crepuscular  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. "This semihistorical and crepuscular period."
2.
(Zool.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; said certain birds and insects. "Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular."






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"Crepusculous" Quotes from Famous Books



... plants rises the magnificent pitahaya,—"those flowers known for size and effulgence, which begin to open as the sun declines, and bloom during the night, shedding a delicious fragrance, and offering their brimful goblets, filled with nectareous juice, to thousands of moths and other crepuscular and nocturnal insects," as ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston



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