Usually means: Colorful, small, tropical songbirds family.
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  1. tanager: Merriam-Webster
  2. tanager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tanager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tanager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tanager: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tanager, tanager: Wordnik
  7. tanager: Wiktionary
  8. tanager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tanager: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tanager: Infoplease Dictionary
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  12. tanager: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tanager: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tanager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tanager: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Tanager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tanager: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tanager)

▸ noun:  Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests, formerly all within the family Thraupidae, but now with some species placed in the family Cardinalidae.

Similar:
ant tanager, grassquit, ant-tanager, tchagra, thraupid, swallow tanager, tyrant flycatcher, turaco, hepatic tanager, honeycreeper, more...

Opposite:
non-bird, mammal, reptile.

Types:
scarlet, orange-crowned, yellow-thighed, blue-gray, black-headed, black-throated, more...

Phrases:
scarlet tanager, Western tanager, summer tanager, hepatic tanager, swallow tanager, more...

Adjectives:
scarlet, western, male, female, headed, blue, rumped, colored, hepatic, throated, backed

Colors:
    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     flame,     ruby, more...
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Similar:
ant tanager, grassquit, ant-tanager, tchagra, thraupid, swallow tanager, tyrant flycatcher, turaco, hepatic tanager, honeycreeper, more...

Opposite:
non-bird, mammal, reptile.

Types:
scarlet, orange-crowned, yellow-thighed, blue-gray, black-headed, black-throated, more...

Phrases:
scarlet tanager, Western tanager, summer tanager, hepatic tanager, swallow tanager, magpie tanager, Silver-beaked tanager, Palm tanager, Multicoloured tanager, more...

Adjectives:
scarlet, western, male, female, headed, blue, rumped, colored, hepatic, throated, backed

Colors:
    scarlet,     crimson,     vermilion,     flame,     ruby, more...



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