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summer tanager

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summer tanager
n.
A New World bird (Piranga rubra) that catches insects in flight and whose plumage is rose-red in the adult male and, in the female, yellowish olive-green above and light brownish-orange below.
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Noun1.summer tanager - of middle and southern United Statessummer tanager - of middle and southern United States; male is deep rose-red the female mostly yellow
tanager - any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males
genus Piranga, Piranga - a genus of Thraupidae


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