Redhead
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The word redhead can mean several things:
- For the sense of a redhead as a human being with red hair, see red hair.
- The North American Redhead duck, Aythya americana
- A colloquial name for the immatures and adult females (i.e., any non-adult male) of some other ducks, notably Smew and mergansers
- The North American Red-headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- The milkweed Asclepias curassavica
- A "redhead" is also a kind of stage light (800W tungsten light): see theatrical lighting
- Redhead was also a 1959 musical, for which Richard Kiley won the Best Actor Tony Award.
- See also Brian Redhead (1929-1994), BBC Radio presenter on the Today programme
- Redheads is a brand of matches sold in Australia.
- Redhead gauge used to measure vacuum