redhead

Meanings

Plural: redheads

Noun

• someone who has red hair
• North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head
• black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
• A person with red hair.
• A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
• A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
• Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
• Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).
• Red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus).
• Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).
• Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).
• A kind of 800-watt lamp.

Synonyms

Aythya americana, bloodnut, Bluey, carrot top, carrots, carrottop, copperhead, coppertop, fire-crotch, firebox, ging, ginge, ginger, ginger head, ginger knob, ginger minger, gingernut, gingette, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Pippi Longstocking, ranga, Red, red-headed stepchild, red-header, redhead, redheaded woodpecker, redheader, redpoll, strawberry blonde

Related Words

auburn, freckleface, ginger, ranga, red, Red hair, rusty