Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin fulvidus, from Latin fulvus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Order is being restored, fresh and vigorous shoots sprouting up from the fulvid basis; but it may be many years before the damage is wholly repaired and the original beauty of the garden restored, for the”
“The fulvid edge of the light outlined the arched nose as he turned to look at her and gleamed opaque on a circle of glass.”
“In the fulvid depths of her red-brown eyes there dwelt an expression of misery.”
“Order is being restored, fresh and vigorous shoots sprouting up from the fulvid basis; but it may be many years before the damage is wholly repaired and the original beauty of the garden restored, for the "growth" of coral -- the skeletons of the polyps -- is methodical and very slow.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fulvid’.
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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color (yellow)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, yellow, descriptive, randomness )yellow, Yellow, Cloud, Straw/Stramineous, Peach, Apricot/Ibis, Lemon, Butter, Mustard, Meline/Canary, Gold(Metallic, Web and 405 more...
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In The Colorhouse
A colorhouse - a manufactory of colors for tints, dyes, pigments, paints, glazes, &c. Terms associated with the science and history of colormaking.
All sorts of things went into color...colorhouse, Turkey red, dyebath, woad, ocher, lead white, mordant, Naples yellow, zaffer, kiln, vat, pot and 298 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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adjectives ending in -id
limpid, pellucid, gravid, vapid, languid, solid, candid, stupid, gelid, sapid, horrid, corvid and 33 more...
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words that end in -id
vellid, tabid, rapid, sapid, insipid, ibid, valid, acrid, arid, balanid, calid, felid and 35 more...
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exploring the -id
These are wonderful adjectives, but sometimes I mix them up.
vapid, insipid, torrid, arid, torpid, turgid, tepid, lucid, pellucid, gelid, horrid, viscid and 50 more...
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hernesheir "a deep yellow Colour." --Glossographia Anglicana Nova, 1707.
"or fulvous, of a yellowish, dusky colour, Lion tawny." --English Dict., 1717. Dec 5, 2012