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The following 8 entries include the term red-backed.
red-backed cutworm
noun: a cutworm that is the larva of a noctuid moth (Euxoa ochrogaster), that is a serious pest on wheat, barley, rye, sugar beets and other plants in Canada and northern U.S., and that feeds both above and below ground
red-backed lemming
nounred-backed mouse
noun: any of many small short-tailed voles of the genus Clethrionomys of northern and mountainous parts of Europe, Asia, and America
red-backed parrot
noun: a small long-tailed green parrot (Psephotus haematonotus) of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia having a red patch on the lower portion of the back compare grass parrot
red-backed saki
noun: an active untamable rufous-tinged South American monkey (Pithecia chiropotes) compare saki
red-backed salamander
noun: a common salamander (Plethodon cinereus) of eastern North America
red-backed sandpiper
noun: a widely distributed rather small sandpiper (Erolia alpina) that is typically cinnamon to rusty brown above, often variously streaked or marked with black (as on the abdomen), and largely white below, has a long and downcurved bill, breeds in northern or artic regions, and winters chiefly in the southern U.S. and around the Mediterranean
red-backed shrike
noun: European shrike (Lanius collurio)