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northern cardinal
[ nawr-thern kahr-dn-l ]
noun
- 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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