Redback vs Refback - What's the difference?
redback | refback |
(Australia) A venomous spider, , endemic to Australia.
* 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night'', ,
* 2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade'', '' ,
* 2007 , Steve Backshall, Steve Backshall's Venom: Poisonous Animals in the Natural World ,
* 2012 , Peter Macinnis, Australian Backyard Naturalist ,
(US) A brown and white sandpiper, Calidris alpina , native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.
(slang) the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)
As nouns the difference between redback and refback
is that redback is a venomous spider, species: Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia while refback is the use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about webpages or proxy servers generating traffic for a webpage.redback
English
Etymology 1
From red + back.Noun
(en noun)page 78,
- “If you find a redback , squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
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- 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.
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- Easily identified by a red, orange or brownish stripe on the abdomen, Redbacks are responsible for by far the most spider bites in Australia.
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- The only truly dangerous Australian spiders are funnelwebs and redbacks but, these days, deaths of people from these spiders seem to be a thing of the past since antivenom is now available.