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Wednesday's word is...

...fulvous.

1. of a dull brownish yellow, tawny

origin
Latin fulvus; perhaps akin to Latin flavus yellow

example
The U.S. is home to two types of whistling ducks: the black-bellied whistling duck and the fulvous whistling duck, commonly called the fulvous tree duck.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024


whistling tree duck

Date: 2024-10-03 02:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] conuly
Who the hell, upon seeing a whistling duck and looking for a word to describe it, decides to go with "fulvous" rather than "tawny" or, better yet, "brownish yellow"?

Date: 2024-10-03 11:59 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kitarella_imagines
I think Fulvous sounds like someone's name. Someone in Jane Austen or even a Roman senator!

An interesting word though!

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