a. Chiefly Nat. Hist. [f. L. fulv-us reddish-yellow + -OUS.] Reddish-yellow, dull yellowish-brown or tawny.
1664. Beale, Aphor. Cider, xxxix., in Evelyn, Pomona, 26. A more fulvous or ruddy colour.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 246/1. A Thistle-Finch hath Neck and Back of a fulvous, or reddish Ash colour.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 93. L. leptonyx, Horsf. Fur shining fulvous brown; throat dull yellow; claws short, blunt, nearly laminar. Inhabits Java.
1839. G. Raymond, in New Monthly Mag., LVI. 312. I now clearly distinguished an expansive eagle on the fulvous panel of the hinder boot.
1848. Lowell, Biglow P., Poems, 1890, II. 8. A Nemean lion, fulvous, torrid-eyed.