summer tanager

summer tanager

n. A songbird (Piranga rubra) of the Americas that catches insects in flight and whose plumage is bright red in the adult male and yellowish-green in the female.

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summer tanager - of middle and southern United States; male is deep rose-red the female mostly yellowPiranga rubra, summer redbirdtanager - any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored malesgenus Piranga, Piranga - a genus of Thraupidae