Definition of reddish
: tinged with red
reddishness
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Young foliage often is shiny or oily-looking with a reddish tint.
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Those finches with the red bibs and reddish wash over the head along with a bright rose-red rump are house finches.
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The sand on the Fire course is reddish brown—more like the desert across the road.
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Witnesses told police the driver, a white man with reddish hair and a goatee, got out of the SUV and walked south on India.
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And few, if any, rivers reveal this unnatural world more than the Colorado, which no longer reaches the sea or carries along its entire 1,450-mile length much of the reddish silt that inspired its name.
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Sulfur gas appears reddish, hydrogen is green and oxygen is blue.
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First Known Use of reddish
14th century
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