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# tawny

«tawny» in Mova's school dictionary: **Tawny describes a warm orange-brown or yellowish-brown…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (tawny, tawnier, tawniest); noun (tawny — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tawny describes a warm orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour, like a lion's fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#m1)

2) A tawny owl is a common brown owl in Britain and Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#m2)

3) Tawny port is a kind of brown wine (for adults). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and descriptions of animals, autumn leaves and hair; in science lessons about British wildlife, the tawny owl («twit-twoo» calls); it tells the reader about colour.

### examples

- The lion shook its tawny mane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#x1)
- A tawny owl hooted in the woods at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#x2)
- Her tawny hair glowed in the sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#x3)
- The hills were tawny with dry grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#x4)
- The tawny frogmouth is an Australian bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#x5)
- Oh, come with me, Connla of the Fiery Hair, ruddy as the dawn with thy tawny skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/#x6)

### note

Mostly used before a noun: «a tawny cat». Fun fact: the famous «twit-twoo» is often two tawny owls calling to each other, a female «twit» and a male «twoo».

### In the corpora

- [Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tawny» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.