Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Strong yellowish pink to moderate orange; reddish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a dull-red color; red but somewhat deficient in chroma: thus, a bay or chestnut horse is rufous; Venetian red is rufous. It enters into the specific name of many animals, technically called rufus, rufescens, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a
red ,reddish colour
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The remaining laughing-thrushes are known as the rufous-chinned
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Among the Rocky Mountains, and especially on the western side of the range, there dwells another little hummer called the rufous humming-bird, because the prevailing color of his plumage is reddish, and between this family and the broad-tails there exists a bitter feud.
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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There are words to represent these different grades of color, such as 'rufous' for reddish-brown and 'fuscous' for dusky-brown; these you must learn later on, for some of them are pretty hard ones.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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The head and bib were a dark, rufous brown, the underside pale.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The head and bib were a dark, rufous brown, the underside pale.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The head and bib were a dark, rufous brown, the underside pale.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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A rufous fly-catcher is hunting for his breakfast under the verandah roof because there are no insects out in the rain.
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This cisticola has a black back thus its alternative common name with rufous wing panels and a grey tail with prominent sub-terminal spots and white tips on the retrices.
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A red kite was right in front of me in a gaunt old ash tree; it was a raptor of considerable size, with mottled brown and rufous plumage and a distinctive forked tail.
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The head and bib were a dark, rufous brown, the underside pale.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
slumry commented on the word rufous
tinged with red
July 18, 2007