Word Meanings - WINNARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The redwing.

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• REDWOOD
  A gigantic coniferous tree of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Cæsalpinia Sappan, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman
• REDWING
  A European thrush . Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. A North American passerine bird of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing.
• REDWEED
  The red poppy . Dr. Prior.
• REDWITHE
  A west Indian climbing shrub with slender reddish branchlets.
• HUNDREDWEIGHT
  A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds