Vocabulary : Red-hand to Rediae

Red-hand : Alt. of Red-handed
Red-handed : Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.
Redhead : A person having red hair. ;; 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. ;; The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker. ;; A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
Redhibition : The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
Redhibitory : Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.

Redhoop : The male of the European bullfinch.
Redhorn : Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are usually red.
Red-hot : Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.
Redia : A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
Rediae : of Redia

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