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Meanings of reddish in English

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.

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      1
      Leaves very short and few in number, reddish-green; leaf-stems and nerves blood-red.
      The Field and Garden Vegetables of America / Containing Full Des...
      2
      The females of both species are clad in the same reddish-brown suits.
      Wake-Robin
      3
      A dull reddish light filtered in through the end of the passage.
      Atlantida
      4
      Larks and finches were busily searching for seeds in the reddish-brown soil.
      Afoot in England
      5
      It turns reddish-brown and becomes yellow again with hydrochloric acid-turmeric; 2.
      Forty Centuries of Ink / Or, A chronological narrative concernin...
      6
      For the most part, however, the reddish-brown of sandstone was the same.
      Accidentally the sheikh's wife
      7
      Catelyn could see the flickering reddish light through the open window now.
      A Game of Thrones
      8
      More than a hundred little reddish-black calves leisurely loped in the rear.
      The Last of the Plainsmen
      9
      He could distinguish her gray figure in relief against the reddish-brown wall.
      The Rim of the Desert
      10
      Off in the east a reddish streak spread skyward into somber gray.
      North of Fifty-Three
      11
      The bill is partly reddish, and longer than in the other sorts.
      A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
      12
      If you want stone here it's red or reddish tan, not grey.
      A kiss of shadows
      13
      It deepened in intensity, ringing the changes of reddish-yellow, purple, and saffron.
      The Son of the Wolf
      14
      Notice the great flower receptacles filled with the reddish cryptomeria of Japan.
      Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
      15
      Whereas normal cells had an overall reddish tint, these cells looked bluish.
      Spiral
      16
      Generally a curtain of a reddish hue depended in front of them.
      By the Golden Gate; Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pac...
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