Word of the Day : November 17, 2020fulvous暗黄色的adjective FULL-vusDefinition: of a dull brownish yellow : tawny 暗褐色的：黄褐色ExamplesThe dog had an unusual coat of fulvous fur with black and white splotches.这只狗有一层不寻常的黄褐色的毛，上面还有黑白斑点。
"I planned to visit the Pine Barrens to marvel at the fulvous leaves rioting to autumnal frenzy." — Denis Hamill, The Independent (East Hampton, New York), 15 Nov. 2017我计划去The Pine Barrens『松林泥炭地』，惊叹于秋季斑斓的黄色海洋中。
Did You Know?Fulvous has never been a common word. You are most likely to encounter it in texts from the 19th century—unless, that is, you care about ducks. In that case, you might know about a kind of whistling-duck called the fulvous tree duck, which is a brownish duck with long legs and a long neck and an unusual world distribution. It lives in isolated populations in North America, South America, India, and Africa—remarkably without geographic variation. But back to fulvous: it shares a meaning with its direct ancestor, the Latin word fulvus, and fulvus itself is believed to possibly share an ancestor with flavus, Latin for "yellow."Fulvous从来不是一个普通的词。
您最有可能在19世纪的文本中遇到它-除非您关心鸭子。
在这种情况下，您可能会知道一种叫作 whistling-duck “the fulvous tree duck”『草黄树鸭』，这是一种有着褐色的鸭腿，腿长，脖子长，分布不均。
它生活在北美，南美，印度和非洲的远离人群的地方，并且没有明显的地理差异。
但是回到 fulvous：它与它的直接祖先拉丁词 fulvus 有着相同的含义，并且 fulvus 本身被认为可能与 flavus 共享祖先，拉丁语为“黄色”。
Test Your VocabularyWhat 6-letter adjective begins with "s" and applies to a grayish, greenish yellow color?