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Heres a redfruit (CT qfBqg /huff, early falling weakening whine, huff, short low weak growl/). As with many other words referring to fruits, this word also doubles as a color term.

There are two species of tree that bear nearly identical fruits. One is a delicious treat designed to induce seed disperses (including yinrih and their tree dweller cousins). The other is extremely poisonous, killing small animals with a single bite and larger animals in just about enough time it takes to eat the fruit. It kills so quickly because the tree needs the resulting corpses to fall to the ground and decompose, providing the tree with nutrients. The insidious part is that the poison is nonvolitile meaning it can't be detected by the yinrih's keen sense of smell.

On Yih and secondarily throughout the Allied Worlds, the color was first associated with risk, as you didn't know when you bit into a redfruit whether it was safe or not. Over time, risk morphed into bad luck, and that's why yinrih with red fur are considered unlucky.