n.
That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
n.
Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
a.
Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
a.
Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
adv.
In a refundant manner.
a.
Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
a.
Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.
v. t.
To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
v. t.
To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
n.
The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
n.
A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
n.
The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
a.
Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.
n.
Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
n.
The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).
n.
A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
n.
A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
n.
A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
n.
An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.