Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person with red hair.
- noun A North American duck (Aythya americana), the male of which has a gray back and wings, a red head, and a black breast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person having red hair.
- noun A red-headed duck, the pochard, Fuligula or Æthyia ferina, a common bird of Europe, a variety of which bears the same name in America and is called more fully red-headed duck, red-headed raftduck, red-headed broadbill, also grayback, Washington canvasback, and American pochard.
- noun The red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus. See cut under
Melanerpes . - noun A tropical milkweed, Asclepias Curassavica, with umbels of bright-red flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person having red hair.
- noun An American duck (
Aythya Americana ) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called alsored-headed duck .American poachard ,grayback , andfall duck . SeeIllust. underPoachard . - noun The red-headed woodpecker. See
Woodpecker . - noun (Bot.) A kind of milkweed (
Asclepias Curassavica ) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person with
red hair . - noun A North American duck
Aythya americana , highly esteemed as a game bird. - noun A kind of
milkweed Asclepias curassavica with red flowers, formerly used in medicine. - noun Chinese red-headed centipede
- noun red-headed bunting
- noun red-headed titi
- noun red-headed vulture
- noun red-headed woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who has red hair
- noun North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head
- noun black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the redhead is his sister, it might make sense to refer to her as his sister in the first paragraph.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » JMiles’ Review Forum 2009
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The seller points this out to Brewer and the family agrees this redhead is the one.
Cormac (copy) ____Maggie 2007
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You guys all realize that the redhead is also played by Avril, right?
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The seller points this out to Brewer and the family agrees this redhead is the one.
Archive 2007-11-01 ____Maggie 2007
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You guys all realize that the redhead is also played by Avril, right?
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MaryRC on Bertie Wooster on the mischief-making talents of a certain redhead
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Bertie Wooster on the mischief-making talents of a certain redhead
The only Christmas song grown-up Catholics are supposed to listen to during Advent 2009
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MaryRC on Bertie Wooster on the mischief-making talents of a certain redhead
The only Christmas song grown-up Catholics are supposed to listen to during Advent 2009
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At the market's peak two years ago, Christie's privately brokered the sale of another 1964 Lichtenstein redhead, "Happy Tears," for roughly $35 million, up from the $7.1 million the auction house got for that same work six years earlier, according to Brett Gorvy, Christie's international co-head of postwar and contemporary art.
Pop Goes the Art Market: A $40 Million Lichtenstein? Kelly Crow 2010
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Hired to manage a fishing camp deep in the Arkansas woods, the strong-willed redhead is eager to settle down ... until she clashes with two men.
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