Words in english starting with R

• red herring — Noun – English ～ a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus; "because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring"
• red helleborine — Noun – English ～ orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers
• red currant — Noun – English ～ cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries
• red oak — Noun – English ～ any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles
• red dogwood — Noun – English ～ common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers
• Red Cross — Noun – English ～ an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime
• red morning-glory — Noun – English ～ annual herb having scarlet flowers; the eastern United States
• red phalarope — Noun – English ～ phalarope of northern oceans and lakes
• red flag — Noun – English ～ a flag that serves as a warning signal; "we didn't swim at the beach because the red flag was up"
• red cabbage — Noun – English ～ compact head of purplish-red leaves
• red mullet — Noun – English ～ brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
• red panda — Noun – English ～ reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas
• red cabbage — Noun – English ～ cabbage plant with a compact head of reddish purple leaves
• red — Noun – English ～ emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
• red light — Noun – English ～ a cautionary sign of danger
• red meat — Noun – English ～ meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton)
• red-blindness — Noun – English ～ dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
• red pine — Noun – English ～ tall New Zealand timber tree
• red-berry — Noun – English ～ North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries
• red elm — Noun – English ～ autumn-flowering elm of southeastern United States

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