fulvous
tawny; dull yellowish-gray or yellowish-brown.
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How to use fulvous in a sentence
They vary exceedingly in colour, and pass through the intermediate gradations from a dark brown to a pale fulvous, and a grayish.
The fulvous tree-duck ranges on our hunting grounds as far north as Sacramento, where occasionally one is killed.
Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast | Harry Thom PayneAs preserved, the type has no definite color markings; color greyish, the elytra of weak fulvous cast.
Color of venter and parapodia grey; elytra at present grey over a fulvous ground.
A paratype has elytra fulvous of dilute ferruginous cast with black mottlings.
British Dictionary definitions for fulvous
/ (ˈfʌlvəs, ˈfʊl-) /
of a dull brownish-yellow colour; tawny
Origin of fulvous
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