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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who has red hair [syn: redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop]
2: North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head [syn: redhead, Aythya americana]
3: black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck [syn: redheaded woodpecker, redhead, Melanerpes erythrocephalus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1664 1. a person having red hair 2. a North American duck (Aythya americana) resembling the related canvasback but having a shorter bill with a black tip and in the male a brighter reddish head

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person with red hair.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Redhead Red"head` (-h?d`), n. 1. A person having red hair. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (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. See Illust. under Poachard. (b) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker. 3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(redheads) A redhead is person, especially a woman, whose hair is a colour that is between red and brown. N-COUNT