a. Chiefly Nat. Hist. [f. L. fulv-us reddish-yellow + -OUS.] Reddish-yellow, dull yellowish-brown or tawny.

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1664.  Beale, Aphor. Cider, xxxix., in Evelyn, Pomona, 26. A more fulvous or ruddy colour.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 246/1. A Thistle-Finch … hath … Neck and Back of a fulvous, or reddish Ash colour.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 93. L. leptonyx, Horsf. Fur shining fulvous brown; throat dull yellow; claws short, blunt, nearly laminar. Inhabits Java.

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1839.  G. Raymond, in New Monthly Mag., LVI. 312. I now clearly distinguished an expansive eagle … on the fulvous panel of the hinder boot.

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1848.  Lowell, Biglow P., Poems, 1890, II. 8. A Nemean lion, fulvous, torrid-eyed.

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