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2. Verb. (third-person singular of parrot) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parrots

1. parrot [v] - See also: parrot

Medical Definition of Parrots

1. Birds widely distributed in tropical regions and having a distinctive stout curved cered hooked bill whose upper mandible is movably hinged to the skull. Parrots are often crested and highly variegated and are excellent mimics. They often readily learn to simulate laughter and crying and to enunciate words and phrases. (webster, 3d ed) (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parrots

Literary usage of Parrots

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"In India the northern range of the group is only bounded by the slopes of the Himalaya, and farther to the eastward parrots are not only abundant over the ..."

2. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"Tuberculosis of parrots. Since Cadiot & Roger found tubercle bacilli in the organs ... These reports confirm the view entertained long before that parrots ..."

3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"parrots and Paroquets—the dividing line between the two can not be sharply drawn—are forest-inhabiting, fruit- and seed- eating birds. ..."

4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"The tongue too, he states, peculiar to the parrots, may be observed to become slenderer, and. as is said, more extensible, in that group of which Psittacus ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"Acclimatization of parrots at Northrepps Hall, Norfolk. [At the recent Meeting of the British Association, the Members, among other invitations, ..."

6. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1882)
"(a) Criminal law—Cruelty to animals—parrots consigned by railway facie ... Six young parrots were consigned by railway by 8. from L. to a customer at D. ..."

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