crepuscular

Learned borrowing from Latin crepusculum + -ar.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjʊ.lə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjə.lɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)

crepuscular (comparative more crepuscular, superlative most crepuscular)

1. Of or resembling twilight; dim.
2. (zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
   • 1999, J. Anne Helgren, Communicating with Your Cat‎, →ISBN, page 51:

     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.

• twilightish

• matutinal
• vespertine
• vespertinal

• diurnal
• nocturnal

crepuscular (masculine and feminine plural crepusculars)

1. crepuscular

• crepuscle

crepuscular m or f (plural crepusculares)

1. crepuscular

• crepúsculo

crepuscular m or f (plural crepusculares, not comparable)

1. crepuscular

• crepúsculo

From French crépusculaire.

crepuscular m or n (feminine singular crepusculară, masculine plural crepusculari, feminine and neuter plural crepusculare)

1. crepuscular

• crepuscul

• IPA^(key): /kɾepuskuˈlaɾ/ [kɾe.pus.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cre‧pus‧cu‧lar

crepuscular (plural crepusculares)

1. crepuscular

• crepúsculo

• “crepuscular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014