eastern red-backed salamander
Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
western red-backed salamander
Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
red-backed sandpiper
dunlin
Erolia alpina | small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions |
black-backed gull
great black-backed gull
cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
red-backed mouse
redback vole | any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America |
grey lemming
gray lemming
red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
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 |
| mortgage-backed security | a security created when a group of mortgages are gathered together and bonds are sold to other institutions or the public, investors receive a portion of the interest payments on the mortgages as well as the principal payments, usually guaranteed by the government |
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 |
| backed | having a back or backing, usually of a specified type |
| high-backed | having a high back, a high-backed sofa |
| low-backed | having a low back |
razorback
razor-backed | having a sharp narrow back, a razor-backed horse, razorback hogs |
| spiny-backed | having the back covered with spines |
| stiff-backed | having a stiff back, the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling |
| straight-backed | having a straight back, a straight-backed wooden chair, a slim straight-backed dancer |
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 |
red-coated
lobster-backed | used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats |
broken-backed
hogged | (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end |
| broken-backed | having the spine damaged, a broken-backed book, a broken-backed old horse |
| broken-backed | (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth |
hunched
round-backed
round-shouldered
stooped
stooping
crooked | having the back and shoulders rounded, not erect, a little oldish misshapen stooping woman |
| backed | used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light |
erectly
straight-backed | in a straight-backed manner, the old man still walks erectly |