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redhead - definition and meaning
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 also red-headed duck . American poachard , grayback , and fall duck . See Illust. under Poachard .
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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
red + head .
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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.
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The seller points this out to Brewer and the family agrees this redhead is the one.
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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.
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You guys all realize that the redhead is also played by Avril, right?
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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.
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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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