Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A local, violent, northeast wind, with tornadic whirls, which descends during October to May from the mountains into the Gulf of Papagayo at the northwest corner of Costa Rica and the southwest corner of Nicaragua. Similar storm winds, but less violent, extend along the Pacific coasts of Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Also called Papagallo, Papagalla, Papagello.
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Examples
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Un papagayo bonito? she asked in a soothing voice.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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Un papagayo bonito? she asked in a soothing voice.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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Un papagayo bonito? she asked in a soothing voice.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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Un papagayo bonito? she asked in a soothing voice.
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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Keep your lanterns open, and, if you see a goblin or a papagayo, take to your trampers.
The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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Coco is an endangered Hyacinth Macaw, known in Paraguayan Spanish as a "papagayo azul."
The Seattle Times 2011
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mi familia—my family un papagayo—a parrot hola- hello bonito/a—pretty
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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mi familia—my family un papagayo—a parrot hola- hello bonito/a—pretty
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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mi familia—my family un papagayo—a parrot hola- hello bonito/a—pretty
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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mi familia—my family un papagayo—a parrot hola- hello bonito/a—pretty
Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii! Annie Bryant 2009
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