Definitions for tanagers

tanagers tan·a·ger

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

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

You can make 380 anagrams from letters in tanagers (aaegnrst).

Definitions for tanagers

noun

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

Origin of tanagers

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

Examples for tanagers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tanagers
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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