: devoid or partially devoid of light : not receiving, reflecting, transmitting, or radiating light
: transmitting only a portion of light
: wholly or partially black
: a place or time of little or no light : night, nightfall
: absence of light : darkness
: a color of low or very low lightness : a dark or deep color
: to grow dark (see 1dark)
: to make dark
: food
: the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering (such as a husk or shell)
: animal tissue considered especially as food:
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