copperhead vs tawny

copperhead

noun
  • Someone with ginger hair. 

  • Coelognathus radiatus (syn. Elaphe radiata), the copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia. 

  • Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America. 

  • Deinagkistrodon acutus, the Chinese copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia 

  • Austrelaps spp. (Australian copperheads), a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania. 

tawny

noun
  • A light brown to brownish orange colour. 

  • Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”) 

  • In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks. 

  • Tawny owl. 

  • Tawny frogmouth. 

  • The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula). 

  • Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name). 

verb
  • To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 

  • To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn. 

adj
  • Of a light brown to brownish orange colour. 

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