Meanings
adjectivefulvous (not comparable)
- not comparableTawny-colored.
The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue.
1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 211 more example
It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 176, column 1
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Origin
- Latinfulvus
- Latinfulvus
- Englishfulvous
Borrowed from Latin fulvus (“reddish-brown”).
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