rufous
/ˈruːfəs
/adjective
Reddish brown in colour: handsome rufous plumage...
- Karl Vernes' current interest is in a small rufous bettong colony that lives in the New England region of northern NSW.
- Males in breeding plumage are unmistakable with their dark blue color, rufous sides and crown, and striking white patterning on the face, neck, sides, and back.
- The adult in breeding plumage is mottled black-and-brown, with little or no rufous coloration.
noun [mass noun]
A reddish-brown colour: pale southern races of peregrine have some rufous on nape...
- This large, long-tailed flycatcher has a pale yellow belly, gray breast and head, and rufous on its wings and tail.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Latin rufus 'red, reddish' + -ous.
Rhymes
- intensely
- intenseness
- intensification
- intensifier
- intensify
- intension
- intensional
- intensionally
- intensity
- intensive
- intensive care
- intensive care unit
- intensively
- intensiveness
- intensivist
- intent
- intention
- intentional
- intentional fallacy
- intentionalism
- intentionality
- intentionally
- intentioned
- intention tremor
- intently