tawny-colored

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tawny-colored - having a tawny color

coloured, colorful - having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

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There have been sightings, neighbors say, of a large animal - a sleek, tawny-colored cat with a dark muzzle and long tail that some are sure is a cougar.

Elusive quarry; Barre neighbors believe cougar is stalking their land

Tracts of unbroken jungle rolled on and on like a dense, leafy sea, cut by the paper-thin edge of an occasional tawny-colored river.

Deep in the jungle of Suriname

We were standing at our back door in the middle of the night, watching a tawny-colored cat fly over the eight-foot-high stucco wall that separates us from the mega-home next door.