tanager
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- noun
- /ˈtænədʒər/
- US
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tángara
- The brilliant yellow-tanager feathers on the handle fluttered in the breeze.
- the scarlet tanager
- the summer tanager
- the Western Tanager
Examples
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Scarlet tanagers...
Blog text (20) -
But you got a good one today, a Western Tanager.
Fiction book (1993) -
Other birds like this tanager have adapted within the same species.
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But we did see a number of tanagers and a "cock of the rock."
Blog text (9) -
What mood was she in when she saw that scarlet tanager?
Fiction book (1997) -
The scarlet tanager.
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Many of the colorful songbirds that are just now leaving us for the winter, including warblers, tanagers, orioles, and grosbeaks, will spend the next five months in and around shade coffee plantations in Mexico and Central and South America.
Blog text (2) -
Scarlet tanagers threaded their way in and out of jacaranda trees, now without blooms, but which, as the panteonero assured me, would be heavy with violet cascades of flowers three months hence, in May.
Fiction book (2002) -
In a brilliant explosion of crimson and gold, a male tanager flashes past.
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The bright colors of the tanager make it a standout among the trees.
Compounds
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A North American songbird whose male has bright red body with black wings and tail
A small singing bird with red feathers found in the southwestern United States and Mexico
A brightly colored songbird from western North America with black, yellow and orange red feathers
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tanager comes from a Native American word that passed into Portuguese and Spanish as tangará or tángara, a local name for small, colourful forest birds. So tanager today means a small, brightly coloured songbird found in the Americas.