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  • adjective of brown tinged with red

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Examples

  • The late-summer levels of the Cheyenne had turned the water into reddish-brown sludge.

    Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

  • They seemed to have sprouted from the forest floor, with their reddish-brown skin the color of autumn leaves, as doe-eyed as the deer that occasionally wandered into their kitchen garden to snack.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • First Growth Creek Ale, a cherry beer, is a murky reddish-brown with a tart, fruity aroma and flavor that gives way to a long, dry, almost woody finish.

    Beer: Farm-to-glass drinking Greg Kitsock 2010

  • Bed bugs are small, flat insects, usually reddish-brown and up to ¼-inch long.

    Bad News from Illinois « Scavenging 2009

  • They seemed to have sprouted from the forest floor, with their reddish-brown skin the color of autumn leaves, as doe-eyed as the deer that occasionally wandered into their kitchen garden to snack.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Full-grown lice roughly are the size and shape of a sesame seed, white to reddish-brown in color and have claws designed to let them cling to and rapidly navigate the hair.

    Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

  • Full-grown lice roughly are the size and shape of a sesame seed, white to reddish-brown in color and have claws designed to let them cling to and rapidly navigate the hair.

    Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

  • Full-grown lice roughly are the size and shape of a sesame seed, white to reddish-brown in color and have claws designed to let them cling to and rapidly navigate the hair.

    Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

  • Full-grown lice roughly are the size and shape of a sesame seed, white to reddish-brown in color and have claws designed to let them cling to and rapidly navigate the hair.

    Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Nitpicking the Lousy Facts on Head Lice M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011

  • Bed bugs are small, flat insects, usually reddish-brown and up to ¼-inch long.

    2009 March 06 « Scavenging 2009

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