tanager

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Any of various small New World passerine birds of the family Thraupidae, often having brightly colored plumage in the males and usually living in forests.

[New Latin tanagra, alteration of Portuguese tangará, from Tupi tanagorá.]

tanager [ˈtænədʒə]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any American songbird of the family Thraupidae, having a short thick bill and a brilliantly coloured male plumage

[from New Latin tanagra, based on Tupi tangara]

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Noun

tanager - any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males

oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

family Thraupidae, Thraupidae - tanagers

firebird, Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager - the male is bright red with black wings and tail

Piranga ludoviciana, western tanager - of western North America; male is black and yellow and orange-red

Piranga rubra, summer redbird, summer tanager - of middle and southern United States; male is deep rose-red the female mostly yellow

hepatic tanager, Piranga flava hepatica - common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico

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Bird
family Thraupidae
firebird
genus Piranga
hepatic tanager
honey creeper
Orange bird
oscine
oscine bird
Oscines
Passeres
Piranga
Piranga flava hepatica
Piranga ludoviciana
Piranga olivacea
Piranga rubra
redbird
scarlet tanager
suborder Oscines

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.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

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