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TANAGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tanager mean?
• TANAGER (noun)
The noun TANAGER has 1 sense:
1. any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males
Familiarity information: TANAGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("tanager" is a kind of...):
oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tanager"):
firebird; Piranga olivacea; redbird; scarlet tanager (the male is bright red with black wings and tail)
Piranga ludoviciana; western tanager (of western North America; male is black and yellow and orange-red)
Piranga rubra; summer redbird; summer tanager (of middle and southern United States; male is deep rose-red the female mostly yellow)
hepatic tanager; Piranga flava hepatica (common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico)
Holonyms ("tanager" is a member of...):
family Thraupidae; Thraupidae (tanagers)
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