fulvous

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"Ground colour dingy-fulvous, occasionally yellowish grey; the body with numerous elongate wavy black spots, somewhat clouded or marbled; the head and nape with some narrow blackish lines, coalescing into a dorsal interrupted band; the thighs and part of the sides with black round spots; the tail black, spotted, and with the tip black; belly yellowish white."

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  1. Reddish-yellow in color; tawny. Gathering her fulvous fleece together, Janet ties it in a hasty knot at the back of her comely head. C. W. Mason, Rape of the Gamp, i. The Sassaybe is the bastard hartebeest of the Colonists, and is considerably smaller than the animal last described [the hartebeest]; the general colour is deep blackish, purple-brown above, fulvous below. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 615.

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  • It is of a fulvous-brown colour, sometimes approaching to yellowish white. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
  • Unhappy Artium Magister Somehow a Nemean lion, fulvous, torrid-eyed, dry-nursed in broad-howling sand-wildernesses of a sufficiently rare spirit-Libya it may be supposed) has got whelped among the sheep. —  The Biglow Papers
  • The one is a higher, longer animal, with smooth shiny hair of a light golden fulvous, the spots being clear and well defined, but, as is remarked by Sir Walter Elliot, the strongest difference of character is in the skulls, those of the larger pard being longer and more pointed, with a ridge running along the occiput, much developed for the attachment of the muscles, whereas the smaller pard has not only a rougher coat, the spots being more blurred, but it is comparatively a more squat built animal, with a rounder skull without the decided occipital ridge. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • In many specimens the fulvous or tawny hue is the prevalent one; a double line of small chain-like stripes from the ears, diverging on the nape to give room to an inner and smaller series; large irregular clouded spots or patches on the back and sides edged very dark and crowded together; loins, sides of belly and belly marked with irregular small patches and spots; some black lines on the cheeks and sides of neck, and a black band across the throat; tail with dark rings, thickly furred, long; limbs bulky, and body heavy and stout; claws very powerful." —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • "Ground colour dingy-fulvous, occasionally yellowish grey; the body with numerous elongate wavy black spots, somewhat clouded or marbled; the head and nape with some narrow blackish lines, coalescing into a dorsal interrupted band; the thighs and part of the sides with black round spots; the tail black, spotted, and with the tip black; belly yellowish white." —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
 

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  1. = Portuguese Italian fulvo, from Latin fulvus, deep-yellow, reddish-yellow, tawny, prob. orig. ‘flame-colored,’ from fulgere, flash; lighten: see fulgent. Cf. flavous, of similar origin.
 

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