Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci.
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- adjective zoology Of or relating to
psittacids , a group ofparrots .
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Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
December 7th, 2005 curufea 2005
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