crepuscular
adj/kɹɪˈpʌs.kjʊ.lə/UK/kɹɪˈpʌs.kjə.lɚ/US
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin crepusculum + -ar.
- learned borrowing from crepusculum
Definitions
Of or resembling twilight
Of or resembling twilight; dim.
Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
- That's why cats are crepuscular — most active at dawn and dusk — because mice and rats forage for food during these hours when fewer of their natural enemies are around.
The neighborhood
- synonymcrepuscular
- synonymcrepusculine
- synonymtwilightish
- antonymnoncrepuscular
- neighborcrepuscule
- neighborcrepusculine
- neighborcrepusculous
- neighborcrepusculum
- neighbormatutinal
- neighborvespertinal
- neighborvespertine
- neighboracronical
- neighbormatutine
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for crepuscular. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA