Definition of fulvous in English:
fulvous
adjective ˈfʌlvəsˈfʊlvəsˈfʊlvəs
Reddish yellow; tawny.
Example sentencesExamples
- His pants are a pale fulvous color and made of the sort of polyester material that never wrinkles.
- Small carnivores, hawks, owls and snakes are the principal predators of the fulvous harvest mouse.
- It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
- The maximum age of a fulvous whistling-duck recorded in nature is 6 years and 6 months.
- As warm spring temperatures return to the breeding grounds so do the fulvous whistling ducks.
- In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band.
- The fulvous whistling-duck's name comes from the hoarse whistling sound it makes and from its coloring.
- ‘Maybe I cannot… ‘thoughtfully she stared at fulvous fallen faded leaves on the marble quay of deserted Heliopolis, ‘but what shall we expect now?’
- An example in the Canterbury Museum, so immature that the tail-feathers are only two inches long, has more fulvous in the plumage and no indication whatever of a superciliary streak.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin fulvus + -ous.
Definition of fulvous in US English:
fulvous
adjectiveˈfʊlvəsˈfo͝olvəs
Reddish yellow; tawny.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Maybe I cannot… ‘thoughtfully she stared at fulvous fallen faded leaves on the marble quay of deserted Heliopolis, ‘but what shall we expect now?’
- An example in the Canterbury Museum, so immature that the tail-feathers are only two inches long, has more fulvous in the plumage and no indication whatever of a superciliary streak.
- His pants are a pale fulvous color and made of the sort of polyester material that never wrinkles.
- As warm spring temperatures return to the breeding grounds so do the fulvous whistling ducks.
- Small carnivores, hawks, owls and snakes are the principal predators of the fulvous harvest mouse.
- In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band.
- The fulvous whistling-duck's name comes from the hoarse whistling sound it makes and from its coloring.
- The maximum age of a fulvous whistling-duck recorded in nature is 6 years and 6 months.
- It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin fulvus + -ous.