Audio English.net » Dictionary » P » Piquant ... Piston Ring

PIRANGA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Piranga mean?

• PIRANGA (noun)
The noun PIRANGA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Thraupidae

Familiarity information: PIRANGA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PIRANGA (noun)

Sense 1

Piranga ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A genus of Thraupidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Piranga; Piranga

Hypernyms ("Piranga" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Piranga"):

firebird; Piranga olivacea; redbird; scarlet tanager (the male is bright red with black wings and tail)

Piranga ludoviciana; western tanager (of western North America; male is black and yellow and orange-red)

Piranga rubra; summer redbird; summer tanager (of middle and southern United States; male is deep rose-red the female mostly yellow)

hepatic tanager; Piranga flava hepatica (common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico)

Holonyms ("Piranga" is a member of...):

family Thraupidae; Thraupidae (tanagers)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"Hard cases make bad law." (English proverb)

"The chicken that cries at night will not lay eggs in the morning." (Albanian proverb)

"Don't count the teeth of a gift horse." (Armenian proverb)

"If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again." (Corsican proverb)

PIRANGA: related words searches

» Definition of bird genus
» What does redbird mean?
» Meaning of Piranga rubra
» Definition of summer redbird
» What does Piranga flava hepatica mean?

Related FAQs:

» PIRANGA

Page delivered in 0.0437 seconds