Having, or pertaining to, the colour scarlet (see A. 2).

Of a bright red, reddish-purple, or reddish-yellow colour or shade. Cf. phoeniceous, adj.

Of a bright scarlet or red colour; vermilion. Chiefly poetic.

Coral-like, of the colour of red coral.

= puniceous, adj. Obsolete.

Of the colour of the dawn; bright red. Now only in Orient red.

Having the colour of vermilion; of a bright red or scarlet colour.

Having the colour of ripe red cherries; esp. applied to the colour of iron, coal, etc., at a low red heat. Also substantive.

= Punic, adj. 2.

Of the colour of red coral; red. coralline ware n. pottery of a red paste made in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries.

in quot. 1641 tinged with scarlet.

Scarlet.

Cinnabar-coloured.

of the colour of poppies; bright scarlet.

Of the reddish orange colour of minium or red lead.

Of a bright red or crimson colour.

Of a deep scarlet colour like that of a cardinal's cassock and hat.

Coloured red like a cherry, cherry-coloured.

Of the bright red colour of the corn poppy. Now rare.

= puniceous, adj. Cf. phoenicean, adj.

attributive. Vermilion-coloured; deep red or scarlet. So in combinations as cinnabar-red.

having the colour of a scarlet geranium.

= miniaceous, adj.

(a) n. a deep scarlet colour like that of a cardinal's cassock and hat; = cardinal red adj. n.(b); (b) adj. of such a colour; = cardinal red adj. n.…

attributive with colour, etc. (passing into the adjective); hence in combinations, as vermilion-coloured.

attributive and in other combinations, as geranium-coloured, geranium-red.

Of a coat worn for fox-hunting: scarlet.

(a) adj. of a deep scarlet colour like that of a cardinal's cassock and hat; cf. cardinal, adj. 7, cardinal scarlet n. adj.(b); (b) n. a deep…

Bright red; = phoeniceous, adj.

Of the colour of magenta.

literary. More generally: flushed or glowing red, as if with anger. Cf. angry, adj. 10b. Obsolete. rare.

Of a bright red colour resembling that of a ripe tomato. Cf. sense A. 3.

A genus of evergreen shrubs belonging to the tea family (Ternströmiaceæ), remarkable for the beauty of their flowers, and chiefly natives of China…

= miniaceous, adj.

attributive.