Infumate

Quick meaning: Infumate is a verb meaning (transitive) To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

Meaning

(transitive) To dry by exposing to smoke; to expose to smoke.

More Meanings

1. Somewhat translucent with a mottled smokey appearance.

Example Sentences

The legs, gaster, and pronotum are reddish, and the short wings are infumate except for a pale band across the middle.

The posterior wings are transparent and iridescent, infumate at the extreme base along the dorsal margin, and their nervuration is to a large extent pale, becoming dark towards the apex.

I am sure Frederick Smith has correctly named a pair in the British Museum, with the whole upper and to a less extend the lower basal cells infumate and the apical alar infumation approaching closely to the stigma; one probably came from Bates and the female, which lacks the single black marks on the second and third segments, was acquired about 1839 through Mr. Mornay from Brazil.

Word Forms

• infumates
• infumating
• infumated

Related Words

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