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Noun: redhead  'red,hed
  1. Someone who has red hair
    - redheader, red-header, carrottop [informal], ginger [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal]
     
  2. North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head
    - Aythya americana
     
  3. Black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
    - redheaded woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus

Derived forms: redheads

Type of: duck, individual, mortal, pecker, peckerwood [US], person, somebody, someone, soul, woodpecker

Part of: Aythya, genus Aythya, genus Melanerpes, Melanerpes

Encyclopedia: Redhead, Michael