Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat tawny or fulvous in color; approaching or becoming tawny.
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Examples
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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
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-- 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
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-- "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
qms commented on the word fulvescent
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