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tanagrine

American

[tan-uh-grin] / ˈtæn ə grɪn /

adjective

of or relating to the tanagers; belonging to the tanager family.

Etymology

Origin of tanagrine

1885–90; < New Latin tanagr ( a ) tanager + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

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Tanager, tan′ā-jėr, n. any tanagrine bird, a member of the Tanagrid�, a family of the Passeriformes or perching birds, closely allied to the finches.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

But they carry them in the same easy graceful manner as erstwhile the discarded pottery, and without losing in the least the gracious tanagrine outline.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter

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