fulvous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   dull brownish yellow or tawny, especially in descriptions of animal plumage or fur

   A fulvous band bordered the darker feathers of the bird's wing.

Borrowed directly from Latin fulvus, 'tawny or reddish yellow.' Naturalists adopted it as a precise colour term, especially for fur and plumage; it is common in nineteenth-century zoological description.

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