" reds "

[Noun]  | "red" 

1: a color whose hue resembles that of blood or of the ruby or is that of the long-wave extreme of the visible spectrum

2: red clothing

3: one that is of a red or reddish color: such as

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English red, reed, derivative of red, reed {see: |red:1|red:1};

[Noun]  | "brick red" 

1: a moderate reddish brown

Origin: 1748 ;

[Noun]  | "Con*go red" | \ ˈkäŋ-(ˌ)gō- \

1: an azo dye C32H22N6Na2O6S2 that is red in alkaline and blue in acid solution and that is used especially as an indicator and as a biological stain

Origin: 1885 ;

 Congo, territory in Africa;

[Noun]  | "Indian red" 

1: any of various usually dark red pigments consisting chiefly of iron oxide

2: a strong or moderate reddish brown

Origin: 1672 ;

[Noun]  | "neutral red" 

1: a basic dye used chiefly as a biological stain and acid-base indicator

Origin: 1890 ;

[Noun]  | "Panama Red" 

1: marijuana of a reddish tint that is of Panamanian origin and is held to be very potent

Origin: 1966 ;

[Noun]  | "phenol red" 

1: a red crystalline compound C19H14O5S used especially as an acid-base indicator

Origin: 1916 ;

[Noun]  | "Rhode Island Red" 

1: any of a U.S. breed of general-purpose domestic chickens having a long heavy body, smooth yellow or reddish legs, and rich brownish-red plumage

Origin: 1893 ;

 Rhode Island, U.S. state;

[Noun]  | "Turkey red" 

1: a brilliant durable red produced on cotton by means of alizarin in connection with an aluminum mordant and fatty matter

Origin: 1734 ;

 Turkey;

[Adjective]  | "red" | \ ˈred \

1: of the color red

2: having red as a distinguishing color

3: flushed especially with anger or embarrassment

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English red, rede, reed, going back to Old English rēad, going back to Germanic *rauđa- (whence also Old Frisian rād, rōd "red, yellow," Old Saxon rōd "red," Middle Dutch root, rood, Old High German rōt, Old Norse rauðr, Gothic rauþs), going back to Indo-European *h1rou̯dh-o-, whence also Old Irish rúad "reddish brown, dark red," Welsh rhudd "red, tawny," Latin rūfus (from a dialect or another Italic language, with -f- for expected -b-), Lithuanian raũdas "red-brown, reddish," Russian dialect rúdyj "blood-red," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian rûd "reddish brown"; from a suffixed zero-grade form *h1rudh-ro-, Old Norse roðra "blood," Latin ruber "red," Tocharian B ratre, Greek erythrós, Sanskrit rudhiráḥ "red, bloody";

  * Note : The Modern English form reflects shortening of Middle English ̄ (long open ), found in other monosyllabic words ending in a voiced dental stop (compare {dead:1|dead:1}, {head:1|head:1}, {shred:1|shred:1}); as with shred, this change took place early enough to be reflected in early Modern English spelling (unlike dead and head). The surnames Read, Reade, etc., may preserve the long vowel.;

[Noun]  | "reds" 

[Noun]  | "red"