tanager
Americannoun
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Also called true tanager. any of numerous small New World songbirds of the family Thraupidae (tanager family), the males of which are usually brightly colored, including the multicolored green-headed tanager , Tangara seledon, of South America.
noun
Etymology
Origin of tanager
First recorded in 1605–15; from New Latin tanagra, metathetic variant of Tupi tangara
Example Sentences
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News of the arrival of the scarlet tanager - more usually found in the forests of North America - broke last weekend, sending birdwatchers into a state of excitement.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024
The team named their find the inti tanager, after the word for “sun” in the indigenous Quechua and Aymara languages, with the proposed species name Heliothraupis oneilli.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2021
He carried the colorful headband that he had been wearing all week—made from toucan and tanager feathers—in a plastic food container.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2018
It is home to some 15 species, including a pygmy owl, a mountain tanager and a foliage gleaner, which are found nowhere else.
From Economist ● Jul. 6, 2017
They circle over the Beauty Minister like tanager birds looking for their nest.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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