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scarlet tanager

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scarlet tanager
n.
A New World bird (Piranga olivacea) the male of which has bright scarlet plumage with a black tail and wings.

scarlet tanager
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an E North American tanager, Piranga olivacea, the male of which has a bright red head and body with black wings and tail
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Noun1.scarlet tanagerscarlet tanager - the male is bright red with black wings and tail
tanager - any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males
genus Piranga, Piranga - a genus of Thraupidae


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I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those smaller and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager -- the wood thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field sparrow, the whip-poor-will, and many others.
 
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