tawny in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

tawny in the PONS Dictionary

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The color is pale buff, with elegant longitudinal narrow tawny streaks.
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The forewings are tawny with fuscous scales and white transverse bands.
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In males the forehead, crown and upperparts are tawny-buff marked with black.
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Adults are tawny or brownish white, the abdomen with a slight brown dorsal stripe and some brown scales on the sides and below.
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The thorax and abdomen are yellowish, pale brownish white or tawny.
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The tawny-edged fore wing strongly contrasts with the hind wing color.
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Tawny frogmouths prefer to catch their prey with their beaks and have fairly weak feet.
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Young twigs and both sides of the leaves are covered with a white or tawny loose felt.
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Physiological testing has shown that tawny frogmouths are able to triple their breathing rate without the need to open their beaks.
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It has a pale, yellowish flesh-color, painted with tawny flammules and sparsely spotted.
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