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A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
Examples
- 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
- 2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58, Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.
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A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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From red + back.
Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
紅背蜘蛛 /红背蜘蛛
(hóngbèizhīzhū)
— Latrodectus hasselti
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German:
Rotrückenspinne
— Latrodectus hasselti
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Japanese:
背赤後家蜘蛛
(seakagokegumo)
— Latrodectus hasselti
