scarlet tanager Piranga olivacea redbird firebird | the male is bright red with black wings and tail |
blue-headed vireo Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa tow-headed snake Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
acanthocephalan spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
white-headed stilt Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
gaffsail gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
scarlet vermilion orange red c | a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge |
scarlet letter | the letter A in red, Puritans required adulterers to wear it |
scarlet runner scarlet runner bean runner bean English runner bean | long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths, a favorite in Britain |
scarlet clematis Clematis texensis | woody vine of Texas having showy solitary nodding scarlet flowers |
scarlet lychnis maltese cross Lychins chalcedonica | Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads |
scarlet musk flower Nyctaginia capitata | viscid branched perennial of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having tuberous roots and deep red flowers |
scarlet pimpernel red pimpernel poor man's weatherglass Anagallis arvensis | herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather |
scarlet oak Quercus coccinea | medium-large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close-grained wood and deeply seven-lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn |
round-headed leek Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
scarlet fritillary Fritillaria recurva | western United States herb with scarlet and yellow narrow bell-shaped flowers |
scarlet runner running postman Kennedia prostrata | hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers |
scarlet runner scarlet runner bean Dutch case-knife bean runner bean Phaseolus coccineus Phaseolus multiflorus | tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial, a preferred food bean in Great Britain |
scarlet wisteria tree vegetable hummingbird Sesbania grandiflora | a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers, tropical Australia and Asia, naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies |
scarlet haw Crataegus biltmoreana | common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orangeed berries |
Virginia strawberry scarlet strawberry Fragaria virginiana | North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit, a source of many cultivated strawberries |
scarlet bush scarlet hamelia coloradillo Hamelia patens Hamelia erecta | handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers, Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil |
red maple scarlet maple swamp maple Acer rubrum | maple of eastern and central America, five-lobed leaves turn scarlet and yellow in autumn |
smooth sumac scarlet sumac vinegar tree Rhus glabra | common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries |
scarlet bugler Penstemon centranthifolius | plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems, coastal ranges from central California southward |
scarlet plume Euphorbia fulgens | Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers |
Sarcoscypha coccinea scarlet cup | a discomycete that is a harbinger of spring, the fruiting body is thin and tough and saucer-shaped (about the size of quarter to a half dollar) with a deep bright red upper surface and a whitish exterior |
scarlet fever scarlatina | an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash |
bald bald-headed bald-pated | lacking hair on all or most of the scalp, a bald pate, a bald-headed gentleman |
shock-headed | having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair, shock-headed teenagers |
broad-headed roundheaded short-headed | having a brachycephalic head |
bullet-headed | having a small round head |
long-headed | having a dolichocephalic head |
c red reddish ruddy blood-red carmine cerise cherry cherry-red crimson ruby ruby-red scarlet c | of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange), resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies |
scarlet-crimson | of crimson tinged with scarlet |
scarlet-pink | of pink tinged with scarlet |
addled befuddled muddled muzzy woolly wooly woolly-headed wooly-minded | confused and vague, used especially of thinking, muddleheaded ideas, your addled little brain, woolly thinking, woolly-headed ideas |
a blockheaded boneheaded duncical duncish fatheaded loggerheaded thick thickheaded thick-skulled wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
mop-headed | (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader, mop-headed cabbage palms |
headed | having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head, often used in combination, headed bolts, three-headed Cerberus, a cool-headed fighter pilot |
burr-headed | having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly) |
large-headed | having a large head |
headed | having a heading or caption, a headed column, headed notepaper |
headed | of leafy vegetables, having formed into a head, headed cabbages |
a grey gray grey-haired gray-haired grey-headed gray-headed grizzly hoar hoary white-haired | showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair, whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge, nodded his hoary head |
headed | having a heading or course in a certain direction, westward headed wagons |
conceited egotistic egotistical self-conceited swollen swollen-headed vain | characteristic of false pride, having an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a conceited fool, an attitude of self-conceited arrogance, an egotistical disregard of others, so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty, growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary, vain about her clothes |