Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) native to Australia and having green, yellow, or blue plumage. It is a popular cage bird bred in a variety of colors not found in wild populations. Also called shell parakeet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An Australian name of the grass-parrakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
Etymologies
- From Gamilaraay gijirrigaa. (Wiktionary)
- Probably alteration of Kamilaroi (Aboriginal language of southeast Australia) gijirrigaa. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Peter and Vicky have about 30 birds; quail, Eastern Rosella, Cockatoos, parakeets (called budgerigar) here) red browed finches and the brightest-colored canary I've ever seen.”
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“In the living room of his London home, film-maker Jamie Thraves is attempting to return to its cage a china-blue budgerigar named Sparky, which has taken up residence on the frame of a mirror.”
“Given the way things have gone so far during this awards season I think it's a fair bet to say that everybody and their pet budgerigar will be ticking the box next to Mo'Nique's grammatically-bonkers name.”
“Ophelia remembered her father telling her a tale he had invented when she was very young about a tiny pink pill that miniaturized the swallower to such an extent that he or she was able to fly on the back of a budgerigar.9 According to Tom Maschler, Roald first started talking to him about The Minpins in the early 1980s, but had then put it aside.”
“A study conducted at the University of California, Irvine, found that a female budgerigar prefers to mate with a male that sounds like her.”
“Yep--go check out the comment section of the budgerigar entry.”
“When I was young and living at home, we had a budgerigar that lived in a cage that hung on a wrought iron stand.”
“Well, I know pelicans and swans but I wouldn't know a grebe from a budgerigar.”
“Pepperberg, who grew up with common budgerigar parakeets as company, began her work after seeing early episodes of Nova that showed language work performed with other types of animals.”
“Katie had ceased petting the blue budgerigar, and she watched the bird as he slowly regained his senses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘budgerigar’.
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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parrots
353 species of parrots is your favourite one here?
major bias to Australian parrots hererainbow lorikeet, blue-streaked lor..., palm cockatoo, galah, cockatiel, kea, eclectus parrot, crimson rosella, swift parrot, red-fan parrot, grey parrot, budgerigar and 86 more...
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Gee, that's hard and soft!
Words that contain both a "hard G" and a "soft G".
gauge, garage, gorge, gorgeous, gigantic, grudge, glurge, begrudge, garbage, grunge, engage, disgorge and 24 more...
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G...R...E
gross.
sybarite, restiveness, churl, nepotism, jingoism, pusillanimous, gaffe, incisive, enervate, bucolic, concomitant, abeyance and 158 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
Another news story about words being removed from a dictionary before their time. See also the list of words added to the dictionary.
carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf, goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop and 137 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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kmalladi's favorites
edification, penchant, ablution, extricate, frank, triumvirate, trifecta, egregious, hoi polloi, articulate, antediluvian, brusque and 291 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 723 more...
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high point scrabble words
not actually high point scrabble words so much as 'these words make you sound pompous; USE THEM IMMEDIATELY'.
panthalassa, gya, vaalbara, kenorland, laurentia, kalahari, gondawa, laurasia, dulia, eidolon, legerdemain, thule and 19 more...
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The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
discovered while reading this book.
balustrade, desideratum, laity, elysium, lairage, lambing, banjaxed, incontinence, tintack, jamb, hors de combat, nolle prosequi and 75 more...
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Australian Derivation ... or, you kno...
Words I heard there. Or from Australians.
didjeridoo, budgerigar, kangaroo, wombat, kookaburra, echidna, koala, dreamtime, matilda, waltzing matilda, billabong, coolibah and 44 more...
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Items
bulbul, budgerigar, balustrade, cabochon, mascaron, peignoir, lorgnette, epigonation, cointoise
Tweets
Looking for tweets for budgerigar.
chained_bear A small Australian parrot, the grass or zebra parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, a popular cage-bird in Britain and elsewhere. See also budgie.
Usage: 1968 K. WEATHERLY Roo Shooter 118 "Budgerigars came in thousands, wheeling in aerial manoeuvres of unbelievable intricacy."
I wonder if someone could make a list of words that rhyme with budgerigar... Feb 6, 2007