fulvous.

Having a tawny yellowish-brown color.

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Words that belong together

• fulvous fur
• fulvous plumage
• a fulvous coat

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Fulvous fur showed between the darker stripes along its flank.

The bird's fulvous plumage almost disappeared against the dry reeds.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Usually non-gradable color term; use more deeply fulvous for differences of saturation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.