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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Astro Word of the Day: Crepuscular
Crepuscular is used to describe something related to twilight, such as the Sun’s crepuscular rays seen during sunset. The word
crepuscular
was drawn from Latin
crepusculum
, twilight, from the root word
creper
, meaning dark and obscure.
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