Illustrative Context

Blood is red.

Target Sense

• The most basic colour term (usually adjectival), typically of some internal human body parts (e.g. the tongue), and particularly of arterial blood flowing from a cut in the skin.
• Provide only the most basic and general colour term, however, that can also be applied much more widely. Do not give narrower terms that can apply only or predominantly to blood or to parts of the body. Likewise, avoid over-specific and narrower compounds phrases such as blood-red.
• Avoid terms specific to other, narrower senses, e.g. specifically for ‘red’ hair colour, the colour of fire or flames, etc...
• See also the target sense definitions for other colour terms in IE-CoR: green, yellow, black and white.