English words for 'Indian red'
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- The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
- a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
- Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
- Specifically, iron saffron.
- a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
- a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
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- A red color.
- A rose-shaped badge of support or membership (e.g., of a political party).
- A rose-shaped arrangement awarded as a prize won in a competition (e.g., a horse show).
- (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
- (architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.
- (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
- A rose burner.
- A small rose-shaped ornament worn as a symbol of an honorific order or military decoration, typically presented with a medal or in place of a medal (e.g., as a lapel button).
- A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
- (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- A floral pattern in latte art.
- A form of knot.
- (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
- (pathology) Synonym of worm-star.
- (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
- (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
- (architecture, now uncommon) A rose window.
- an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
- rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
- circular window filled with tracery
- a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
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- Red ochre.
- A flourish after a signature.
- (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- A statement of intent.
- (education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
- A title of a category or a class.
- (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
- category name
- an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
- a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
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- Of a red hue.
- (particle physics) Of a red color charge.
- (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
- (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
- (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
- (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
- (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- (US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.
- Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- characterized by violence or bloodshed
- (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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- (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
- (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
- (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
- (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
- (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
- (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
- (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
- (slang, uncountable) Tomato ketchup.
- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
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- A deep red colour.
- a deep and vivid red color
- A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
- A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
- (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
- (rhyming slang) Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
- A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
- a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
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- A red ochre.
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
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- Pale red.
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
- a light shade of red
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- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
- of a light shade of red
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- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
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- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
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- a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
- large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
- (in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life.
- A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
- Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).
- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
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- A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
- a vivid purplish-red color
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- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
- A dye made from the plant.
- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
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- A purplish-red colour.
- Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
- Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
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- a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
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- (pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
- (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
- (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
- (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot.
- (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A person's head.
- any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
- a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
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- To pick grapes.
- Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
- To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (Northern UK) To grope.
- (Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
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- The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
- a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
- Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
- Specifically, iron saffron.
- a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
- a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
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- A red color.
- A rose-shaped badge of support or membership (e.g., of a political party).
- A rose-shaped arrangement awarded as a prize won in a competition (e.g., a horse show).
- (botany) A plant growth form in which the plant grows outward in all directions for a short distance, producing a small round shape.
- (music) A decorative inlay surrounding the sound hole of a guitar.
- (architecture) An element or ornament resembling a rose, especially on a wall or other surface, mostly for decorative purposes.
- (cooking) A rose shape piped using frosting, most commonly buttercream.
- A rose burner.
- A small rose-shaped ornament worn as a symbol of an honorific order or military decoration, typically presented with a medal or in place of a medal (e.g., as a lapel button).
- A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
- (botany) One or more whorls of leaves, clustered tightly at the base of a plant.
- A floral pattern in latte art.
- A form of knot.
- (zoology) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
- (zoology) A flowerlike color marking, as on the leopard.
- (medicine) A clustered formation of tumor cells.
- (pathology) Synonym of worm-star.
- (cooking) A thin, cookie-like, deep-fried Scandinavian pastry, made using an iron, which resembles a rose blossom.
- (oceanography) A rosette sampler.
- (architecture, now uncommon) A rose window.
- an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor
- rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
- circular window filled with tracery
- a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground)
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- Red ochre.
- A flourish after a signature.
- (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- A statement of intent.
- (education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
- A title of a category or a class.
- (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
- category name
- an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
- a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
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- A deep red colour.
- a deep and vivid red color
- A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
- A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
- (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
- (rhyming slang) Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
- A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
- a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
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- A red ochre.
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
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- Pale red.
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
- a light shade of red
adj
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
- of a light shade of red
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- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
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- A purplish-red colour.
- Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
- Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
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- Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
- A dye made from the plant.
- A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
- A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
- The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
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- Red ochre.
- A flourish after a signature.
- (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- A statement of intent.
- (education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
- A title of a category or a class.
- (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
- category name
- an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
- a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
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- The colour of Indian red pigment: a variety of dark, purplish reds.
- a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
- Any of a variety of red or purple pigments containing ferric oxide, found in natural earth or made by chemical methods like calcinating green copperas.
- Specifically, iron saffron.
- a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
- a red pigment composed in part from ferric oxide which is often used in paints and cosmetics
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- Of a red hue.
- (particle physics) Of a red color charge.
- (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
- (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
- (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
- (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
- (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- (US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.
- Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- characterized by violence or bloodshed
- (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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- (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
- (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
- (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
- (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
- (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
- (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
- (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) Red lemonade
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
- (slang, uncountable) Tomato ketchup.
- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
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- A deep red colour.
- a deep and vivid red color
- A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
- A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
- (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
- (rhyming slang) Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
- A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
- a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
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verb
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- The plant Rubus idaeus.
- Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
- (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
- A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
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- a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
- large red-and-black European moth; larvae feed on leaves of ragwort; introduced into United States to control ragwort
- (in “Cinnabar Panacea”) The Elixir of Life.
- A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
- Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).
- A bright red colour tinted with orange.
- (countable) A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
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- A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
- a vivid purplish-red color
adj
noun
- a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.
noun
- Pale red.
- (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green or brown shades, made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers of that colour in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- Magenta, the colour evoked by red and blue light when combined.
- (slang) The vagina or vulva.
- Alternative form of pinko.
- A color reminiscent of pinks, the flowers.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- A huntsman.
- a person with mildly leftist political views
- any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers
- a light shade of red
adj
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- (informal) Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
- By comparison to red (communist), supportive of socialist ideas but not actually socialist or communist.
- of a light shade of red
verb
- To prick with a sword.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
- sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
noun
- Red ochre.
- A flourish after a signature.
- (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- A statement of intent.
- (education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
- A title of a category or a class.
- (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
- category name
- an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
- a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
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noun
- (pathology) A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
- (countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
- (US, naval slang) A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
- (uncountable) Clipping of grapeshot.
- (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (countable, uncountable) A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A person's head.
- any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
- a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
verb
- To pick grapes.
- Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
- To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
- (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
- (Northern UK) To grope.
- (Hong Kong) To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).