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northern cardinal

[ nawr-thern kahr-dn-l ]

noun

  1. a distinctively crested songbird, Cardinalis cardinalis, the male of which is bright red: the most familiar cardinal in the eastern half of the United States and much of Mexico.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of northern cardinal1

First recorded in 1920–25

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