indigo bird

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   small deep blue North American bunting

   Synonymsindigo buntingindigo finchPasserina cyanea

   Broaderbunting

   Part ofPasserina

Questions about indigo bird

What does indigo bird mean?

indigo bird means "small deep blue North American bunting".

What is another word for indigo bird?

Close synonyms include indigo bunting, indigo finch, Passerina cyanea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indigo bird a common word?

indigo bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.