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indigo bunting

noun

  1. a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.


indigo bunting

noun

  1. a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is bright blue and the female brown
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of indigo bunting1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Among the other types of birds were also soras, indigo buntings and wood thrushes.

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Blue jays, eastern bluebirds, and indigo buntings are all blue birds, but the rich azure of an indigo bunting is nothing like the softer, sky blue of a jay.

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The rose-breasted grosbeak is there too, and the red-eyed vireo, and the indigo bunting.

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The researchers spotted birds in the severely burned patches that they didn’t find in the unburned ones, including the indigo bunting, chestnut-sided warbler and eastern towhee.

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Butterflies floated over stalks of milkweed, and an indigo bunting piped from a treetop at the edge of a ragged field.

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