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tangara

tangara is the obsolete form of tanager.

Meaning of tanager

Noun

tanager (plural tanagers)

  1. Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests within the family Thraupidae.
    • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168

Forms of tangara

pluraltangaras

Origin of tangara

Borrowed from Portuguese tangara.

Questions about tangara

What is tangara the obsolete form of?
Tangara is the obsolete form of tanager.

Words near tangara in the dictionary

  1. Tangambalanga
  2. Tanganyika
  3. Tanganyikan
  4. Tanganyikans
  5. tangar
  6. tangara
  7. tangarana
  8. tangare
  9. Tangaroa
  10. Tangaroan
  11. tangas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangara (page history and authors); tanager (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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