| barber pole |
a pole or cylinder with red and white spiral stripes, by which barbers indicate the location of their shops. |
| barberry |
any of various shrubs, often spiny, that have leathery leaves and bear clustered yellow flowers and small ovoid red-orange berries. |
| beef bourguignon |
a dish consisting of braised cubes of beef in a red-wine sauce, often with mushrooms or other vegetables. |
| beefsteak tomato |
any large red flavorful tomato. |
| beet |
a cultivated plant whose leaves and fleshy, usu. dark red root are edible. (See sugar beet.) [1/2 definitions] |
| belladonna |
a poisonous plant bearing purplish red flowers and black berries; deadly nightshade. [1/2 definitions] |
| bell pepper |
the apple-sized fruit of this plant, usu. red when ripe but often eaten green; sweet pepper. [1/2 definitions] |
| berbere |
an Ethiopian spice blend, red in color and containing chili pepper and paprika, often used in stews and curries. |
| beta-carotene |
a molecule of the carotene family that has a red-orange color and is abundant in plants. |
| Betelgeuse |
a red variable star in the constellation Orion, having a magnitude of 0.7. |
| betel palm |
a tall palm tree of the Asian tropics that has feathery leaves and produces orange or red fruit and the betel nut. |
| bignonia |
any of various tropical American woody vines that bear trumpet-shaped red or yellow flowers. |
| Bing cherry |
a variety of sweet, dark red cherry. |
| bittersweet |
a climbing, woody vine found in North America, bearing orange fruit that splits open when ripe to expose red-coated seeds. [1/5 definitions] |
| blackbird |
any of various common songbirds, the males of which are black or mostly black, such as the European thrush or the American red-winged blackbird. |
| black widow |
a small spider, widespread in the United States, of which the female has a shiny, black body with an hourglass-shaped red mark on its underside, a poisonous but usu. not fatal bite, and a reputation for sometimes devouring its mate. |
| bleeding heart |
any of several flowering plants, esp. a common garden variety with drooping red or deep pink, heart-shaped flowers. [1/2 definitions] |
| blood |
the red fluid containing oxygen and nutrients that circulates in the vascular system of vertebrates. [1/7 definitions] |
| blood count |
the number of red cells, white cells, and platelets counted in a specific volume of blood. [1/2 definitions] |
| bloodroot |
a North American spring wildflower that bears a single white flower and has a fleshy red root that yields a toxic red sap. |
| bloodshot |
(of eyes) showing dilated blood vessels; red and irritated. |