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What does crepuscular mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or resembling twilight; dim.
  2. (zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
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The last three miles go fast, and the canyon opens up to a crepuscular dome of sky.
The nighthawk belongs to the Family Caprimulgidae, a group of nocturnal and crepuscular birds also known as the nightjars.
Thus it may normally be crepuscular or nocturnal in its feeding and swimming behavior.
From the dim blue polar gloom you proceed to the crepuscular world of stone curlews and owls.
Species that feed at dusk are termed crepuscular and include jacks snappers, tarpon, cornetfishes and groupers.
Back in the crepuscular gloom of my Tyneside flat, the result seemed satisfactory.

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