fauve

Etymology
, from, from , a borrowing from , (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), from. The adjectival sense of "savage, fierce" comes from the noun sense "wild animal," which is in turn a shortening of bête au pelage fauve (“animal with tawny fur”).

Adjective

 * 1) tawny
 * 2)  savage, fierce having the ferocity of a wild animal
 * 3)  dangerous, wild
 * 4)  fauvist

Noun

 * 1)  tawny-coloured animal
 * 2)  a big cat, such as a lion or lynx
 * 3)  beast, wild animal, especially fierce, aggressive, or predatory. Usually implies adding big bears like the Black, Brown and Polar ones. Sometimes extends up to the wolverine, wolf, etc. More rarely, big, aggressive and/or hard to meet cervid game might go under this umbrella term as well.
 * 4)  a violent or aggressive man or woman
 * 5) a brownish orange color, tawny
 * 6)  examiner
 * 1)  examiner

Adjective

 * 1) brownish