Definition of Parroquet

1. Noun. Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Parroquet

parried
parrier
parriers
parries
parrilla
parrillas
parring
parritch
parritches
parro
parrock
parrocked
parrocks
parroket
parrokets
parroquet (current term)
parrot
parrot's-bill
parrot's beak
parrot's bill
parrot-beak nail
parrot-fashion
parrot cries
parrot cry
parrot disease
parrot fever
parrot jaw
parrot mouth
parrot snake
parrot virus

Literary usage of Parroquet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of Jamaica by Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill (1847)
"... distinguishing them from introduced specimens, mentions in addition to those I have given, " the Mountain parroquet." (MSS. ii. 88.) FAM.—PICID. ..."

2. The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore (1900)
"Here is an extract from Calverley which falls in with this definition : I never had a dear gazelle; But I was given a parroquet— How did I nurse him if ..."

3. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement: With Other Early Essays by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1914)
"Chapter IX Plants of Canterbury — Turnip — Tutu — Ferns — Ti Palm— Birds—Paradise Duck—Tern—Quail—Wood Hen — Robin— Linnet — Pigeon — Moa — New parroquet ..."

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