parrot : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), the Carolina parrakeet. See Parrakeet.

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• noun small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head
  cockateel; Nymphicus hollandicus; cockatiel.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in learning to talk.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the kakapo.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Kakapo.

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• (Zoöl.), the kakapo.

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• cannel coal; so called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes in burning. Eng. & Scot.

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• noun infectious disease of birds
  psittacosis.
  

WordNet

• noun an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds
  psittacosis; ornithosis.
  

WordNet

• . (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green, n.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant (Bocconia frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any fish of the genus Scarus. One species (S. Cretensis), found in the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Webster 1913

• noun evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand
  parrot's beak; Clianthus puniceus.
  

WordNet

• noun evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand
  parrot's beak; Clianthus puniceus.
  

WordNet

Par"rot's-bill` noun

Etymology

So called from the resemblance of its curved superior petal to a parrot's bill.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The glory pea. See under Glory.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a large and beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus Adelaidensis). The male has the back black, the feathers margined with yellowish blue and scarlet, the quills deep blue, the wing coverts and cheeks light blue, the crown, sides of the neck, breast, and middle of the belly scarlet.

Webster 1913

• noun a tame parrot
  poll.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of very small green parrots (Nasiternæ), native of New Guinea and adjacent islands. They are not larger than sparrows.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and P. Alexandri of Java.

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Va"za par`rot

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.

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