Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Tanagra in ancient Bæotia: usually applied to Greek terra-cotta figurines of which the most notable have been found in excavations on the site of Tanagra. See cut at Tanagra figurine under figurine.
- Of or pertaining to tanagers; belonging to the Tanagridæ, and especially to the Tanagrinæ: as, a tanagrine bird; tanagrine characters.
- Inhabited by tanagers: as, the tanagrine area of the Neotropical region.
- noun A member of the Tanagridæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the
tanagers .
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Examples
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But they carry them in the same easy graceful manner as erstwhile the discarded pottery, and without losing in the least the gracious tanagrine outline.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886
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