Tawny (color)

This box shows the color tawny.

Tawny is a brownish-orange color or brownish-yellow color.

Tawny (color) Media

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  The tawny owl (Strix aluco) gives an example of tawny used as an adjective in a name. Latin scientific names may use the adjective fulvus (or variations), meaning tawny or fulvous. An example is Cinnycerthia fulva, the binomial name of the fulvous wren.