blue-black grosbeak

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What does blue-black grosbeak mean?

Any bird of the species Cyanoloxia cyanoides, a deep blue and black-colored cardinalid found from southern Mexico down to northern South America.

Where does blue-black grosbeak come from?

From blue + black + grosbeak, possibly a partial calque of translingual Cyanoloxia cyanoides (or the synonyms thereof), using the specific epithet of cyanoides (“like cyan”), from κῠ́ᾰνος (kŭ́ănos, “dark blue”), though improbable.

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