quit

onomatopoeic

imitative

Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.


cardinal

en-adj

cardinal (comparative more cardinal, superlative most cardinal)

more cardinal (comparative)
most cardinal (superlative)

From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardin-, cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.

der

a cardinal mark

(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

главен

of or relating to the cardinal directions


cardinal

en-noun

cardinal (countable and uncountable, plural cardinals)

The sweet-briar rose with perfume good, / And the violet grows in the Milton wood, / The cardinal red—a queen is she, / But the sweetest flower is Mary Lee.

1844–1857, Marion D. Sullivan (lyrics and music), “Mary Lee: A Romance of the Milton Wood” (sheet music), Boston: Oliver Ditson, page 2, verse 3:

Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.

Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.


pope

Jamaican Creole: puop

Tok Pisin: pop

→ Hindi: पोप (pop)

→ Urdu: پوپ (pop)

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

der

(Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.

(US, obsolete) Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.


pope

en-verb

pope (third-person singular simple present popes, present participle poping, simple past and past participle poped)

popes (present singular third-person)
poping (participle present)
poped (participle past)
poped (past)

I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).

c. 1916, in Evelyn Waugh's Life R. Knox (1959), ii. i. 142

A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.

(intransitive, colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.


bananaquit

From banana + quit (“small passerine bird”).

Consider an example involving the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), a common land bird in Central and South America and on several Caribbean islands (Seutin et al., 1994).

2000, John C. Avise, Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species, page 270:

Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies.

2009, Gilbert Waldbauer, What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life, page 140:

It had been weeks since Valerie had been outside on the patio, weeks since Ana had left out sugar water for the hummingbirds and bananaquits, who still continued to flutter around the empty feeders ever hopeful that their easy nectar would return.

2010, LeAnn Neal Reilly, The Mermaid's Pendant, page 490:

A nectar-feeding bird, Coereba flaveola, thought to be related to the Darwin's finches and the grassquits.


tanager

/ˈtænəd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

From translingual Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

I’m remembering that time when there was a mourning warbler on that chip path 15 years ago and I remember the scarlet tanagers last week. That’s what I think about when I’m in the park.

2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, quoting Christian Cooper, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests, formerly all within the family Thraupidae, but now with some species placed in other families with birds such as finches and cardinals.


redbird

Any of various red cars formerly used in the New York City subway system; or a train of such cars.


honeycreeper

Any of various nectar-feeding birds of the tanager family, belonging to the genera Cyanerpes, Chlorophanes, and Iridophanes.

Any of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, passerine songbirds of Hawaii.


seedeater

Any bird in the genus Sporophila of the tanager family, Thraupidae

Any bird in the genus Amaurospiza, now classified in the family Cardinalidae


pardusco

A tanager of species Nephelornis oneilli found in Peru.


guitguit

(archaic) One of several species of small tropical American birds (the honeycreepers), especially Cyanerpes caeruleus.


coerebid

Any bird in the family Coerebidae, often considered part of the Thraupidae.


thraupid

(zoology) Any of the tanagers and related birds in the family Thraupidae.


Darwin's finch

en-noun

Darwin's finch (plural Darwin's finches)

They were first collected by Charles Darwin on the Galápagos Islands. The term "Darwin's finches" was first applied by Percy Lowe in 1936, and popularised in 1947 by David Lack in his book Darwin's Finches.

Any of a group of about fifteen species of passerine birds found mainly on the Galápagos Islands, often classified as the subfamily Geospizinae or tribe Geospizini, not closely related to true finches.


grassquit

From grass + quit (“small passerine bird”).

1988 [1948], David Lack, Notes (for 1988 edition), Darwin's Finches, page xv,
Steadman (1982) suggests that Darwin's finches are so closely related to the South American blue-black grassquit (Volatinia jacarina), that all 14 species plus the grassquit should be considered congeners within a new genus, Geospiza.

The molecular work also makes a compelling case that Darwin's finches were originally grassquits.

1999, Peter R. Grant, Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches, page xv:

The current guess is that it was the wonderfully named dull-coloured grassquit, because this is the bird with the closest genetic code to the Galapagos finches.

2012, Jonnie Hughes, On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others Go Extinct, unnumbered page:

Any of several small tropical birds now placed in the tanager family Thraupidae (but previously in Emberizidae), common in the West Indies and in countries of Central and South America around the Caribbean Sea.


swallow tanager

swallow tanager (plural swallow tanagers)

Tersina viridis, a tanager found widely throughout South America.


magpie tanager

Cissopis leverianus, a South American tanager.


dacnis

Any of a number of species of tanager in the genus Dacnis.


orangequit

A monotypic species of tanager (Euneornis campestris) endemic to Jamaica.


conebill

Any of various small tanagers of the genus Conirostrum.


summer tanager

Piranga rubra, a medium-sized American songbird.


glacier bird

white-winged diuca finch (Idiopsar speculifer).


beryl-spangled tanager

beryl-spangled tanager (plural beryl-spangled tanagers)

Tangara nigroviridis, a species of songbird found in the Andes mountains.


scarlet-browed tanager

scarlet-browed tanager (plural scarlet-browed tanagers)

Heterospingus xanthopygius, a species of perching bird.


fulvous-headed tanager

fulvous-headed tanager (plural fulvous-headed tanagers)

Thlypopsis fulviceps, a species of tanager perching bird native to Venezuela and Colombia.


flowerpiercer

Any of the tropical birds in the genus Diglossa, found in Central and South America.


plushcap

A bird of the species Catamblyrhynchus diadema, native to the Andes.


chat-tanager

Any of the birds of the genus Calyptophilus


masked crimson tanager

masked crimson tanager (plural masked crimson tanagers)

A bird native to South America, Ramphocelus nigrogularis


sharp-beaked ground finch

sharp-beaked ground finch (plural sharp-beaked ground finches)


golden-collared honeycreeper

golden-collared honeycreeper (plural golden-collared honeycreepers)

Iridophanes pulcherrimus, a species of bird native to a small sliver of northwestern South America.