| finch | any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
pine siskin
pine finch
Spinus pinus | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
purple finch
Carpodacus purpureus | North American finch having a raspberryed head and breast and rump |
vesper sparrow
grass finch Pooecetes gramineus | common North American finch noted for its evening song |
indigo bunting
indigo finch
indigo bird
Passerina cyanea | small deep blue North American bunting |
weaver
weaverbird
weaver finch | finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests |
Java sparrow
Java finch
ricebird Padda oryzivora | small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields |
| grassfinch grass finch | usually brightlyolored Australian weaverbirds, often kept as cage birds |
zebra finch
Poephila castanotis | small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's |
crimson
ruby
deep red | a deep and vivid red color |
crimson clover
Italian clover
Trifolium incarnatum | southern European annual with spiky heads of crimson flower, extensively cultivated in United States for forage |
alizarin carmine
alizarin crimson
alizarin red | any of various acid dyes, used for dyeing wool scarlet red |
blush
crimson
flush
redden | turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame, The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by |
crimson
red violent | characterized by violence or bloodshed, writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days- Andrea Parke, fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing- Thomas Gray, convulsed with red rage- Hudson Strode |
| crimson-magenta | magenta tinged with crimson |
| crimson-purple | purple tinged with crimson |
| crimson-yellow | yellow tinged with crimson |
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 |
crimson
red
reddened
red-faced
flushed | (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion, crimson with fury, turned red from exertion, with puffy reddened eyes, red-faced and violent, flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment |