A television program featuring the
white-tailed deer referred to them as crepuscular. The word is applied to
animals that are active at twilight. It comes from the Latin crepusculum, dusk or twilight.
Related words include
crepuscle (twilight), crepuscule (twilight), crepusculine (dusky, pertaining to
twilight), crepusculous (indistinct, dim, dusky), and crepusculum (twilight,
dusk).
Other time-of-day words
were discussed in an earlier blog.
Available from McFarland & Co.: Word Parts
Dictionary, 2nd edition
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