Crepuscular vs Crepuscule - What's the difference?
crepuscular | crepuscule | Derived terms |
Of or resembling twilight; dim.
(zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
* 1999 , J. Anne Helgren, Communicating with Your Cat ,
Twilight.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 54:
Crepuscular is a derived term of crepuscule.
As a adjective crepuscular
is of or resembling twilight; dim.As a noun crepuscule is
twilight.crepuscular
English
(wikipedia crepuscular)Adjective
(en adjective)page 51, ISBN 0764108557
- 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.
Synonyms
* (l)Coordinate terms
* (l) * (l)crepuscule
English
Alternative forms
* crepuscleNoun
(en noun)- Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.