redhead

See also: Redhead

English

A redhead

A redhead duck

Bahuvrihi compound of red +‎ head.

redhead (plural redheads)

A person with red hair.
Synonyms: ginger, coppertop, bloodnut, Bluey; see also Thesaurus:redhead
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)
(film, television, theater) A kind of 800-watt lamp.
Coordinate term: blonde
- 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making (page 63)
  Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.

red-haired person

Basque: kaskagorri, ilegorri
Catalan: pèl-roig (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 紅髮／红发 (hóngfā), 紅髮的人／红发的人 (hóngfā de rén)
Czech: zrzek m, zrzka f
Dutch: roodharige (nl), rooie (nl)
Esperanto: rufulo, ruĝharulo
Finnish: punapää (fi), punatukka
French: roux (fr) m, rousse (fr) f
German: Rotkopf m, Rotschopf (de) m, Rothaariger m, Rothaarige f
Greek: κοκκινομάλλης (el) m (kokkinomállis), κοκκινομάλλα (el) f (kokkinomálla)
Hebrew: ג'ינג'י‎ (he) m (jinji), ג'ינג'ית‎ f, אדמוני‎ (he) m (admoni), אדמונית‎ (he) f
Hungarian: vöröshajú (hu), vörös (hu)
Irish: rua (ga) m (of both males and females), fear rua m, bean rua f
Italian: testarossa f, pel di carota m
Japanese: 赤毛 (ja) (あかげ, akage)
Latin: rūfus (la) m
Latvian: rudmatis m, rudmate f
Manx: ben ruy f, fer ruy m, kione jiarg m
Norman: rousseau m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rødtopp m
Nynorsk: raudtopp m
Portuguese: ruivo (pt) m, ruiva f
Russian: ры́жий (ru) m (rýžij), ры́жая (ru) f (rýžaja), рыжеволо́сый (ru) m (ryževolósyj), рыжеволо́сая (ru) f (ryževolósaja)
Scottish Gaelic: ruadh m (of both males and females), fear ruadh m, bean ruadh f
Slovak: ryšavec m, ryšiak m
Spanish: pelirrojo (es) m, pelirroja (es) f, colorín (es) m, colorina f
Vietnamese: người tóc (hung hung) đỏ (lit: "red-haired person)
Walloon: rosse (wa) m or f, rossea (wa) m, rossete (wa) f
Welsh: cochen f, cochyn m

Aythya americana

milkweed Asclepias curassavica

Chinese red-headed centipede — see Chinese red-headed centipede

Emberiza bruniceps

Callicebus regulus

Sarcogyps calvus

Melanerpes erythrocephalus