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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres.

Poinciana

The royal poinciana.

Red

The hue of the long-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

Poinciana

A tropical tree, Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.

Red

A pigment or dye having a red hue.
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Poinciana

A tropical shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, with bright orange-red flowers, originally native to the Americas and now widely cultivated as an ornamental.

Red

Something that has a red hue.

Poinciana

A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

Red

Often Red A Communist.

Poinciana

Small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications
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Red

A revolutionary activist.

Poinciana

A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

Red

The condition of being in debt or operating at a loss
The firm has been in the red all year.

Red

Having a color resembling that of blood.

Red

Reddish in color or having parts that are reddish in color
A red dog.
A red oak.

Red

Having a reddish or coppery skin color.

Red

Often Red Often Offensive Of or being a Native American.

Red

Having a ruddy or flushed complexion
Red with embarrassment.

Red

Relating to or being a red state.

Red

Often Red Communist.

Red

Having red#Noun as its color.
The girl wore a red skirt.

Red

(of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
Her hair had red highlights.

Red

(of the skin) With a red hue due to embarrassment or sunburn.

Red

Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare of the spades or clubs suits
I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.

Red

Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

Red

Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
The red-black grand coalition in Germany

Red

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.
A red state
A red Congress

Red

Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations

Red

(astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

Red

(particle physics) Having a color charge of red.

Red

Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
Red can be seen as hot or angry.

Red

(countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; usually capitalized a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Red

One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.

Red

Red wine.

Red

(countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.

Red

A red kangaroo.

Red

A redshank.

Red

An American Indian.

Red

(slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

Red

(informal) A red light a traffic signal

Red

(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

Red

Usually in the phrase "bowl of red".

Red

(informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

Red

Tomato ketchup.

Red

(archaic) rede

Red

To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; - generally with up; as, to red up a house.

Red

Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.

Red

The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.

Red

A red pigment.

Red

The menses.

Red

The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

Red

A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

Red

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Red

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue;
The company operated at a loss last year
The company operated in the red last year

Red

Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Red

Characterized by violence or bloodshed;
Writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days
Fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing
Convulsed with red rage

Red

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;
Crimson with fury
Turned red from exertion
With puffy reddened eyes
Red-faced and violent
Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment

Red

Red with or characterized by blood;
Waving our red weapons o'er our heads
The Red Badge of Courage
The red rules of tooth and claw

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