User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- 1 /ˈfʊlvəs/
- 2 /ˈfʌlvəs/
Adjective
- Tawny-coloured.
Quotations
- 1922, Virginia
Woolf, Jacob's
Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 17
- The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of fulvous hue.
Extensive Definition
Tawny refers to a pale orange-brown colour. It is
used in the names of organisms with such colouring. It is also a
given or assumed name for people, mostly women. In heraldry, it is
often called tenné.
Birds
- Tawny Antpitta, Grallaria quitensis
- Tawny Eagle, Aquila rapax
- Tawny Fish Owl, Ketupa flavipes
- Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides
- Tawny Grassbird, Megalurus timoriensis
- Tawny Lark, Galerida deva, also known as Syke's Lark
- Tawny Owl, Strix aluco
- Hume's Tawny Owl, Strix butleri, also known as Hume's Owl
- Tawny Piculet, Picumnus fulvescens
- Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
- Black-and-tawny Seedeater, Sporophila nigrorufa
- Tawny Straightbill, Timeliopsis griseigula
- Tawny Tit-spinetail, Leptasthenura yanacensis
- Tawny-backed Fantail, Rhipidura superflua
- Tawny-bellied Babbler, Dumetia hyperythra
- Tawny-bellied Hermit, Phaethornis syrmatophorus
- Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl, Megascops watsonii
- Tawny-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha
- Tawny-breasted Flycatcher, Myiobius villosus
- Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, Xanthotis flaviventer
- Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch, Erythrura hyperythra
- Tawny-breasted Tinamou, Nothocercus julius
- Tawny-breasted Wren-babbler, Spelaeornis longicaudatus
- Tawny-browed Owl, Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana
- Tawny-capped Euphonia, Euphonia anneae
- Tawny-chested Flycatcher, Aphanotriccus capitalis, also known as Salvin's Flycatcher
- Tawny-collared Nightjar, Caprimulgus salvini
- Tawny-crested Tanager, Tachyphonus delatrii
- Tawny-crowned Greenlet, Hylophilus ochraceiceps
- Tawny-crowned Honeyeater, Phylidonyris melanops
- Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant, Euscarthmus meloryphus
- Tawny-faced Gnatwren, Microbates cinereiventris
- Tawny-faced Quail, Rhynchortyx cinctus
- Tawny-flanked Prinia, Prinia subflava, related to the Plain Prinia
- Tawny-headed Mountain Finch, Leucosticte sillemi
- Tawny-headed Swallow, Alopochelidon fucata
- Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet, Phyllomyias uropygialis
- Tawny-shouldered Blackbird, Agelaius humeralis
- Tawny-throated Dotterel, Oreopholus ruficollis
- Tawny-throated Leaftosser, Sclerurus mexicanus
- Tawny-tufted Toucanet, Selenidera nattereri
- Tawny-winged Woodcreeper, Dendrocincla anabatina
Other organisms
- Tawny Cat Snake, Boiga ochracea, snake of the family Colubridae
- Tawny Daylily, Hemerocallis fulva, also known as Orange Daylily, plant of the family Hemerocallidaceae
- Tawny Grisette, Amanita fulva, mushroom of the family Amanitaceae
- Tawny Mime, Papilio (Chilasa) agestor, butterfly of the family Papilionidae
- Tawny Nurse Shark, Nebrius ferrugineusor, also known as Giant Sleepy Shark, nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae
- Tawny Prominent, Nadata gibbosa, also known as Rough Prominent, moth of the family Notodontidae.
- Tawny Rajah, Charaxes bernardus, butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
- Scarce Tawny Rajah, Charaxes aristogiton, butterfly of the family Nymphalidae
- Tawny Speckled Pug, Eupithecia icterata, moth of the family Geometridae
- Tawny-Bellied Cotton Rat, Sigmodon fulviventer, rodent of the family Muridae
People
- Tawny Cypress (b.1976), American actress
- Tawny Little (b.1956), American television newsreader
- Tawny Kitaen (b.1961), American actress
- Tawny Moyer (b. 1958), American actress
- Tawny Peaks (b.1961), big-bust model, stripper and housewife
- Tawny Roberts (b.1979), American pornographic actress.
- Tawny Taylor, American romance author
Miscellaneous
- In heraldry, 'Tenné' or 'tawny' is an orangish brown colour
- Mister Tawky Tawny, a fictional character in the Marvel Family comics
- The 'Tawny Man' trilogy, fantasy book series by writer Robin Hobb
- Tawny PortTawny Spreadborough model
- "Tawny" is the title of a 1954 record album by entertainer Jackie Gleason