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Word of the Day for Sunday, April 19, 2009crepuscular \kri-PUS-kyuh-lur\, adjective: 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim. I've been through their checkout and noted its resemblance to Hades - the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the trolleys piled high with flat-pack cardboard units. In the crepuscular lobby, a broad circle of monitors laid on their backs on the floor blinked up at a laser show spiraling across a tentlike scrim stretched just below the building's blacked-out skylight. But Monet pursued the blood-red sun rather than the blanched moon, favouring the strangely crepuscular effects created by noxious London smogs during the day. Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have been studied in nocturnal species; little is known concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal species. Crepuscular comes from Latin crepusculum, twilight, from creper, dark, obscure; ultimately of Sabine origin. | |||||||||
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