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Definition of Redback
1. n. The dunlin.
Definition of Redback
1. Noun. (Australia) A venomous spider, ''Latrodectus hasselti'', endemic to Australia. ¹
2. Noun. (American English) A brown and white sandpiper, ''Calidris alpina'', native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redback
1. a poisonous spider [n -S]
Medical Definition of Redback
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Redback
Literary usage of Redback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... color + diminutive -ling}, or redback. A sandpiper of the Northern Hemisphere,
which migrates annually between arctic breeding-grounds and the tropics, ..."
2. Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas by William Carey Crane (1884)
"It was loudly asserted that these were only redbacks under the thin disguise of
another name, and their utter and speedy depreciation, like their redback ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"This deposit carries about the same amount of sulphur as the redback and Green
Pond mines, but rests on a dike of diabase that cuts the Siluro-Cambrian ..."
4. Silviculture: From the Crane of Forestry to Ecosystem Management edited by Louise H. Foley (1998)
"Conversely, composition of redback voles (Clethrionomys gapperi) decreased from 44
... Also, the number of redback voles decreased by half and the number of ..."
5. Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War by John Henninger Reagan (1906)
"Provision was made to fund the redback notes into interest-bearing bonds, and
for a new issue of $350000 in what were called exchequer notes, ..."
6. Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War by John Henninger Reagan (1906)
"Provision was made to fund the redback notes into interest-bearing bonds, and
for a new issue of $350000 in what were called exchequer notes, ..."
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