redback

== English == === Alternative forms === red-back, red back === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === From red +‎ back. ==== Noun ==== redback (plural redbacks) (Australia) A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia. 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78, “If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide. 2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58, Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them. (US) A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin. ===== Synonyms ===== (Latrodectus hasselti): redback spider (Calidris alpina): ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== black widow katipo === Etymology 2 === Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red ==== Noun ==== redback (plural redbacks) (slang) the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money) ===== Coordinate terms ===== red chip