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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Unusual red pigmentation, as of hair or plumage.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, a condition of dichromatism characterized by excess of red pigment in the plumage of birds which are normally brown, gray, etc.
  • noun In anthropology, redness of hair, generally combined with light complexion.
  • noun In zoology, the assumption of red in animals, in place of their ordinary coloration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A condition of excessive redness. See erythrochroism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology Abnormal red colouration.

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  • Abnormal redness; as of plumage or hair

    December 24, 2008