Fulvus
/FUL-vus/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: fulva, fulvum
A color epithet describing a deep, warm tawny color — the yellow-brown of a lion's coat, autumn grasses, or ripe wheat. It implies a brownish-yellow tone, more earthy and less bright than croceus or flavus. Appears as fulvus (masculine), fulva (feminine), or fulvum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin fulvus, meaning "tawny," "deep yellow," or "reddish-yellow," related to flavus and fulgere (to shine).
Example
“Hemerocallis fulva (tawny daylily) — the common roadside orange daylily of North America — carries this epithet for the warm, lion-coat tawny tone of its flowers, distinct from the clearer yellows of other species.”