Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Somewhat tawny or fulvous in color; approaching or becoming tawny.

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Examples

  • This bat frequents old buildings, dark cellars, old ruins, &c.; the young are fulvescent, and become darker with age.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Hair more or less brown above, sometimes with a chestnut hue, sometimes grizzled, or with a tinge of dun; yellowish-white, or with a fulvescent tinged white below; the throat, upper lip, and sides of head are nearly white; the line of separation of upper and lower parts not very distinctly marked.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- "Fur very full and dense, pale fulvescent olive brown on the upper parts, slightly yellowish-white below; whiskers remarkably long" (_Blyth_).

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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  • What rara avis bizarrely fluorescent
    Assails us with crowing incessant?
    It's only the rumpus
    Of brass-pated trumpus
    Who struts in his plumage fulvescent.

    July 17, 2016