fulvous
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈfʊlvəs/, /ˈfʌlvəs/
fulvous (not comparable)
- Tawny-coloured.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":
- It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 17:
- The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of fulvous hue.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":
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