REDHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redhead mean? 

• REDHEAD (noun)
  The noun REDHEAD has 3 senses:

1. someone who has red hair

2. North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head

3. black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck

  Familiarity information: REDHEAD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has red hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

carrottop; red-header; redhead; redheader

Hypernyms ("redhead" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Aythya americana; redhead

Hypernyms ("redhead" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Holonyms ("redhead" is a member of...):

Aythya; genus Aythya (canvasback; redhead; pochard; etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Melanerpes erythrocephalus; redhead; redheaded woodpecker

Hypernyms ("redhead" is a kind of...):

pecker; peckerwood; woodpecker (bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects)

Holonyms ("redhead" is a member of...):

genus Melanerpes; Melanerpes (a genus of Picidae)