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Definition of Piranga
1. Noun. A genus of Thraupidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Thraupidae, Thraupidae
Member holonyms: Firebird, Piranga Olivacea, Redbird, Scarlet Tanager, Piranga Ludoviciana, Western Tanager, Piranga Rubra, Summer Redbird, Summer Tanager, Hepatic Tanager, Piranga Flava Hepatica
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piranga
Literary usage of Piranga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1907)
"The name piranga ... Our present bird should therefore in future be called piranga
mexicana (Linnaeus). ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1899)
"... piranga rubra, — PRR Rep., IX, 1858, p. 300, where he cites it as a synonym
of the bird now known as piranga ..."
3. Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820: Undertaken by Command of His by Johann Baptist von Spix, Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Hannibal Evans Lloyd (1824)
"The gold washed in the Rio piranga is so fine, that it often forms a thin skin
floating on the water, and therefore cannot well be separated, ..."
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