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fulvous

UK /ˈfʊlvəs/adjective

fulvous is an adjective meaning “Tawny-colored” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-V-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fulvous mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Tawny-colored.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fulvous?

  • UK /ˈfʊlvəs/
  • UK /ˈfʌlvəs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fulvous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is fulvous?

Fulvous appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fulvous come from?

Borrowed from Latin fulvus (“reddish-brown”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).