Definitions for tanager

tanager tan·a·ger

Spelling: [tan-uh-jer]
IPA: /ˈtæn ə dʒər/

Tanager is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in tanager (aaegnrt).

Definitions for tanager

noun

  1. any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.

Origin of tanager

1605-15; New Latin tanagra, metathetic variant of Tupi tangara

Examples for tanager

tanager is uniformed first for conquest, then for guard duty.

The tanager was always a very shy bird; he did not like to be looked at.

Marcilianum is now Sala, in the valley of the Calore (tanager).

The bird he had carried in his bosom he found to be a Southwestern tanager.

There is pride in the song of the tanager, and vanity in that of the catbird.

If it tried, say, the tanager's, would we believe and accept it?

Silence again, while a tanager called his agitated "chip-chur!"

I waited only for warm days to set free the tanager, and at last they came.

Dense foliage no more conceals the male bird's brilliant coat than it can the tanager's or oriole's.

I stood with a tanager in one hand, a lovely manakin in the other, thinking.

Word Value for tanager
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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