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red-backed, a.
a. Having a red back; chiefly of birds, esp. the red-backed butcher-bird or shrike (Lanius collurio), and the red-backed sandpiper (Erolia alpina). Also, the red-backed mouse or vole (Clethrionomys gapperi), and the Australian red-backed spider (= red-back 2).
1709J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 126 The Red-back'd Snake [is found in Carolina]. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. I. 163 The Red backt Butcher Bird [1776 Shrike]..The upper part of the back and coverts of the wings are a bright ferruginous color. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) The mode in which a Red-backed Pelecan..stowed its food into its pouch. 1813Wilson Amer. Ornith. VII. 25 Red-backed Sandpiper, Tringa Alpina. 1819Warden United States II. 411 The rattle⁓snake,..red-backed snake. 1822Latham Gen. Hist. Birds VI. 286 The Red-backed Lark. 1839Audubon Ornith. Biog. V. 335 Red-Backed Woodpecker. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 263/2 One species..is known by the names Variegated Sole, Red-backed Flounder, etc. (Monochirus linguatulus). 1894Newton Dict. Birds 845 Much smaller than this is the Red-backed Shrike,..the best-known species in Great Britain, where it is a summer visitor. 1897Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington XI. 113 The following brief synopsis of the Red-backed Voles is based on a study of specimens in the collection of the U.S. Biological Survey. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 6 June 20/3 In the Chillagoe..district the red-backed spider is known as ‘the jumping red-back’. 1936D. McCowan Anim. Canad. Rockies viii. 71 The Red-backed mouse is a forest dweller..of medium size and has a coat that is marked by a fairly broad belt of chestnut brown hair over the spine. 1940Gabrielson & Jewitt Birds Oregon 263 The handsome Red-backed Sandpiper is a common migrant on the coast. 1942Red-backed spider [see katipo]. 1962M. E. Murie Two in Far North ii. iii. 117 Olaus was interested in learning all he could about the distribution of..the red-backed mouse. 1963Times 5 June 14/4 There was still to come the red-backed shrike. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 134 Safe from..red-backed spiders, and spiders without red backs. 1977J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xv. 465 The seed was collected and buried mainly by..redbacked voles.
b. Of books: Backed with, bound in, red.
1866Howells Venet. Life xvi. 246 We forestieri of the red-backed books. |