Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
parrakeet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots
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Examples
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A bird with a yellow head, which, from the structure of its beak, we called a parroquet, is likewise very common.
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A bird with a yellow head, which, from the ftru&ure of its beak, we called a parroquet, is like - wife very common.
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Then another bird called the parroquet complained in the sky, and said: “I am your portent; ye shall die.”
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Gun Gallery in Stockholm, I felt that I had to direct some traffic to Show Studio's site because some spectacular videos are now up that feature the parroquet, which is a more slender version of the parrot, in action.
SLAMXHYPE 2008
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For birds, they moftly belonged to the different fpecies we have before noticed in the channel of Dentrecafteaux, a particular kind of parroquet and a beautiful bulfinch excepted, which was the firft of its fpecies we faw.
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The most remarkable were the fine crimson lory, Eos rubra — a brush-tongued parroquet of
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We were then a little quiet again, and got something to eat; for while the vessels were here every bit of fish or vegetable was taken on board, and I had often to make a small parroquet serve for two meals.
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The only bird new to me which I obtained at Lorok was the fine long-tailed parroquet (Palaeornis longicauda).
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Birds, though not remarkably numerous, are in great variety, and of the most exquisite beauty of plumage, among which are the cockatoo, lory, and parroquet; but the bird which principally claims attention is, a species of ostrich, approaching nearer to the emu of South America than any other we know of.
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It represented a parroquet intensely crimson, on a background uniformly emerald; and the eyes of the melancholy lover dwelt wistfully upon the snowy hands selecting the different colors from a tortoise-shell work-box filled with spools of silk.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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