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单词 fulvous
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Definition of fulvous in English:

fulvous

adjective ˈfʌlvəsˈfʊlvəsˈfʊlvəs
  • Reddish yellow; tawny.

    黄褐色的;茶色的

    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.

    黄褐色的;茶色的

    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.

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