Fulvous is a

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, sometimes described as dull orange,

brown Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors Orange (colour), orange and black. In the ...

ish-yellow or tawny; it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch. As an adjective it is used in the names of many species of birds, and occasionally other animals, to describe their appearance. It is also used as in

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to describe fungi with greater colour specificity, specifically the pigmentation of the surface cuticle, the broken flesh and the spores en masse. The first recorded use of ''fulvous'' as a colour name in English was in the year 1664. Fulvous in English is derived from the Latin "fulvus", a term that can be recognised in the scientific binomials of several species, and can provide a clue to their colouration.

Birds

* Fulvous babbler * Fulvous owl * Fulvous parrotbill * Fulvous shrike-tanager * Fulvous whistling duck * Fulvous wren * Fulvous-bellied antpitta * Fulvous-breasted flatbill * Fulvous-breasted woodpecker * Fulvous-chested jungle-flycatcher * Fulvous-chinned nunlet * Fulvous-crested tanager * Fulvous-dotted treerunner * Fulvous-headed brush-finch * Fulvous-headed tanager * Fulvous-vented euphonia * Eurasian griffon vulture (''Gyps fulvus'') * Pacific golden plover (''Pluvialis fulva'') * Ashy woodpecker (''Mulleripicus fulvus'') * Cave swallow (''Petrochelidon fulva'')

Reptiles

* Highland garter snake (''Thamnophis fulvus'')

Mammals

* Fulvous harvest mouse * Fulvous pygmy rice rat * Fulvous-bellied climbing rat * Fulvus roundleaf bat * Common brown lemur (''Eulemur fulvus'') * Yellow ground squirrel (''Spermophilus fulvus'') *

Coyote The coyote (''Canis latrans''), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the Wolf, gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the c ...

(''Canis latrans'')

Fish

* '' Cephalopholis fulva'', coney or butterfish * '' Starksia fulva'', yellow blenny

Invertebrates

* Fulvous dawnfly * Fulvous forest skimmer * '' Dorylus fulvus'', a West African ant * '' Technomyrmex fulvus'', a Central American ant * '' Nylanderia fulva'', a South American ant * '' Paratrechina fulva'', a South American ant * '' Aphaenogaster fulva'', a

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American ant * '' Smicronyx fulvus'', a sunflower seed weevil * '' Tigriopus fulvus'', a marine

copepod Copepods (; meaning 'oar-feet') are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (living in the water column), some are benthos, benthic (living on the sedimen ...

* '' Menemerus fulvus'', a Japanese jumping spider * '' Megahexura fulva'', the tawny dwarf tarantula * '' Euconulus fulvus'', a New Zealand land snail * '' Rhagonycha fulva'', the common red soldier beetle * '' Libellula fulva'', the scarce chaser; a British dragon fly * '' Aplysina fulva'', a scattered pore rope sponge

Fungi

* '' Fomes fulvus'', a North American conk * '' Amanita fulva'' * '' Mycovellosiella fulva'', a plant pathogen * '' Byssochlamys fulva'', a plant pathogen * '' Cladosporium fulvum'', a plant pathogen * '' Xanthoria fulva'', a lichen

Prokaryotes

* '' Myxococcus fulvus'' * '' Pseudomonas fulva''

Plants

* '' Plagiobothrys fulvus'', fulvous popcorn flower * '' Chrysopogon fulvus'', red false beardgrass * '' Hemerocallis fulva'', tawny daylily * '' Iris fulva'', copper iris * '' Polyscias fulva'' a West African parasol tree * '' Ulmus fulva'', slippery elm * '' Quercus fulva'', an endemic Mexican oak * '' Utricularia fulva'', an Australian carnivorous plant * '' Livistona fulva'', a palm having fronds with golden undersides * '' Madhuca fulva'', a threatened tree endemic to

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* '' Arachnorchis fulva'', the tawny spider-orchid * '' Arctophila fulva'', arctic march grass

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