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noun
Redhead  n.  
1.
A person having red hair.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
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 also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck.
(b)
The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
3.
(Bot.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.






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"Redhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... him at the door, a cute little redhead in a red-striped dress, who gave him a smile that seemed to start on the bridge of her nose and lift her whole face up after it. She held ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... as dismal as a cellar, black from smoke and crowded with dark furniture. All the sunlight fell upon the tailor's workbench by the window. An old frock coat that was being reworked lay on it. The Boches' only child, a four-year-old redhead named Pauline, was sitting on the floor, staring quietly at the veal simmering on the stove, delighted with the sharp odor of cooking that came from the ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... then, in the way of pleasure. Last Saturday night I sat down at eleven o'clock to blue-point oysters, consomme, stewed terrapin—yours was very good, Makely; I wish I had taken more of it—lamb chops with peas, redhead duck with celery mayonnaise, Nesselrode pudding, fruit, cheese, and coffee, with sausages, caviare, radishes, celery, and olives interspersed wildly, and drinkables and smokables ad libitum; and I can assure you that I felt very devout when ...
— Through the Eye of the Needle - A Romance • W. D. Howells

... turning. "Another redhead, by gad! Well, I'll tell you this, young woman, you're red, but he's redder. Your days for running things to suit yourself ...
— Where There's A Will • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... sun came out and Hale made his way through the crowd to the battered temple of justice. On one corner of the square he could see the chief store of the town marked "Buck Falin—General Merchandise," and the big man in the door with the bushy redhead, he guessed, was the leader of the Falin clan. Outside the door stood a smaller replica of the same figure, whom he recognized as the leader of the band that had nearly ridden him down at the Gap when they were looking for young Dave Tolliver, the autumn before. That, doubtless, ...
— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.

... like this," Ross snapped. The redhead shifted his heavy shoulders in a reflexive protest against the ...
— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)



Words linked to "Redhead" :   person, soul, peckerwood, woodpecker, genus Aythya, somebody, duck, genus Melanerpes, mortal, individual, pecker, redheader



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