What's the difference between brownish and tawny?

Brownish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat brown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the brownish skin and in the black spots of the dorsal region all types of chromatophores are found.
  • (2) The cases found positive by IHC showed brownish nuclei of the epithelium and those positive in ISH showed purple to purplish-black nuclei.
  • (3) In both cases, blue-brownish pigmentation appeared symmetrically on the skin of the head.
  • (4) When it comes to poor, brownish people, not so much.
  • (5) Following exposure to the sun, painful urticarial plaques developed at the sites of intramuscular injections, and spread to the lumbar and abdominal regions, leaving a brownish pigmentation which persisted for years.
  • (6) Subjects who developed dark brownish discoloration on the facial surfaces of their anterior teeth during a 3-week period following professional cleaning of the teeth were selected for study.
  • (7) Five patients are reported in whom brownish grey discoloration occurred on the light-exposed parts of the dermis after long-term amiodarone-medication.
  • (8) The diagnosis was based on the specific and pathognomonic symptoms: lesions of the pale parts of the skin due to photosensitization, brownish discolouration of the teeth and urine, overall wasting and retardation of growth.
  • (9) We report on a Japanese girl with short stature, malar hypoplasia, up-slanting palpebral fissures, blue sclerae and thin, stiff and slightly brownish hair.
  • (10) The lesions appeared brownish black, and most were variegated from tan to black.
  • (11) A choroidal lesion with brownish pigmentation and retinal detachment around it was found, located nasally of the optic disk.
  • (12) Owing to this brownish pigmentation bile depositions are distinguishable from the other mentioned liver cell inclusions under the light microscope.
  • (13) We suggest that round, brownish urine crystals, even without radiolucent kidney stones, should alert the physician to search for the existence of 2,8-dihydroxyadenine.
  • (14) In most cases the lesions consisted of erythematous brownish plaques with an annular configuration.
  • (15) Evidently, when the fluid is brownish, simple visual examination does not suffice for distinguishing meconium from old blood or other pigments.
  • (16) In chromatogrammes the forat compound appears as a tile red portion with a darker peripheral part and Rf = 0.61, and phenothion--in yellow, with a brownish halo and Rf = 0.41.
  • (17) At operation, these lesions appeared yellowish, brownish, grey or black in colour, and contained dirty or muddy material.
  • (18) It is known that hyaluronic acid is present in stone matrix, that calcium containing stones contain proteins rich in acidic amino acids, and that the external color of calcium oxalate monohydrate calculi is usually brownish.
  • (19) Brownish pus discharges from her umbilicus were recognized by manual compression of the lower abdominal mass.
  • (20) The underside of the mature colony is brownish red.

Tawny


Definition:

  • (n.) Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While no clear effect could be seen on cage-orientated behaviour, the calls of the barn owl and tawny owl produced consistent increases in self-orientated, call-orientated and defensive behaviour indicating that these calls were recognised as belonging to predators.
  • (2) Casting a shadow upon them was a rabbit standing upright on its hind legs, and above him, on a shelf, sat two tawny owls, each mounted on a stump and standing around 20in high.
  • (3) The species of Centrorhynchus in the shrews may be Centrorhynchus aluconis, which is distributed widely in tawny owls, Strix aluco, in the United Kingdom.
  • (4) The little eagle (Haliaetus morphnoides) hunts from great heights and has no predators, whereas the tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) hunts from perches near the ground, is preyed upon, and frequently adopts an immobile camouflage posture.
  • (5) Encased in plastic bags like objects from a crime scene are a tawny owl, the dorsal fin of a sei whale, and a juvenile sparrowhawk that was hit by a car.
  • (6) As two-minute exposures to the tape-recorded calls of barn and tawny owls activate endogenous opioid-mediated analgesia mechanisms in laboratory mice, the behavioural effects of the calls of a variety of predator and nonpredator species were ethologically assessed.
  • (7) Tawny eyes look out from between sheets of tawny hair, the bright gaze and pointed face of a fox.
  • (8) Time course analysis revealed the analgesia induced by the Tawny Owl call to have a duration in excess of 40 min while the Barn Owl and Gull call-induced analgesias were much shorter lasting (approximately 10 min or less).
  • (9) Attempts to complete the sexual cycle of this mustelid parasite in a tawny owl, Strix aluco, are reported and the results discussed in the light of hypothetically likely sources of infection with muscular sarcosporidiosis for carnivores or omnivores, including man and other primates.
  • (10) The king of them all is Mount Mulanje, a 3,000m-high granite outcrop of forested slopes and tawny plateaux across 230 square miles of southern Malawi.
  • (11) Metomidate 1 per cent was administered intramuscularly as the sole anaesthetic agent on 22 occasions to seven tawny owls (Strix aluco).
  • (12) In the human and monkey eye, magnification at the far periphery is substantially smaller than at the posterior pole; in cat, rabbit, rat and mouse there is lesser reduction; in pigeon, tawny owl and starling magnification is closely similar at the far periphery and posterior pole.
  • (13) Data revealed that the calls of the Tawny Owl, Barn Owl and Common Gull all induced significant analgesia following exposure to 2 min of birdsong.
  • (14) Down the aisle I went, finding oaks, but only occasional ones, still in tawny leaf and marked by both bulk and scarcity.
  • (15) Look and listen out for The "twit-twoo" of tawny owls.
  • (16) On the other hand the Tawny Owl (Strix aluco L.) and Barn Owl (Tyto albo Scopoli) proved resistant to a massive experimental infection.
  • (17) As she loped off along the pavement a streak of tawny fur shot out from my driveway tumbling at her heels.
  • (18) A tawny fox emerged, scenting the air, its gaze fixed on the ibis, which, unaware, continued to feed.
  • (19) It is well known that Laennec gave cirrhosis its name from the Greek word kirrhos (tawny), in a brief footnote to his treatise De l'auscultation médiate (1819), but the eponym "Laennec's cirrhosis" is rarely used in France.
  • (20) As a result of a surveillance programme in North-Germany, paramyxovirus-isolates of serogroup 1 with different pathogenicity were isolated from different species of feral birds (Black-headed gull, mallard, tawny owl, tree sparrow, mute swan).

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