tanager (n.)

a name given to various small, conspicuous American woodlands birds, 1844, earlier tanagra (1610s), from Modern Latin tanagra, alteration of Portuguese tangara, from Tupi (Brazil) tangara, a bird name of uncertain meaning. Related: Tanagrine; tanagroid.

also from 1844

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