Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A brownish-green mountain-dwelling New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis) that usually eats insects but sometimes feeds on carrion and rubbish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sheep-killing parrot of Australia, Nestor notabilis.
Wiktionary
- n. Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; -- called also
mountain parrot .
WordNet 3.0
- n. large brownish-green New Zealand parrot
Etymologies
- Maori kea (Wiktionary)
- Maori, perhaps imitative of its call. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The park is also home to the world's only alpine parrot species, namely kea, as well as the endangered takahe.”
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
“Before the white man came, in fact, the kea was a mild-mannered fruit-eating or honey-sucking bird.”
“May 29th, 2009 LONDON - A British tourist was left in the lurch after a large wild parrot known as the kea stole his passport in New Zealand.”
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“Whare Kea means "house of the kea" in Maori -- the kea being the world's only alpine parrot.”
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“Others, like human beings and kea birds, not so much.”
“I also only recently found out about what the kea can do to a sheep, and about vampire finches.”
“Wat impresid uz was taht teh kea tukked tehm on teh fly.”
“Mai fwend had hur sunglassis stoled by a kea – tehy waz on hur hed at teh tiem.”
“I read an articlol abowt a kea wut stole a passport from a toorist, then flied awf into teh forest.”
“The endemic rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris) and the world's only alpine parrot, the kea (Nestor notabalis) probably evolved from lowland equivalents.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kea’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 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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Maori words playable in scrabble
Maori, weve had a influx since
2007ahuru+, ahuruhuru+, aka+, akatea+, akeake+, akiraho+, amokura+, araara+, ariki+, aroha+, aruhe+, ataata+ and 297 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words
Different Words
collectress, tachygenesis, star-scattered, liquescent, hyemation, boggler, springal, domineering, emove, repugn, kea, pettah and 19 more...
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parrots
353 species of parrots is your favourite one here?
major bias to Australian parrots heregalah, blue-streaked lor..., rainbow lorikeet, palm cockatoo, cockatiel, kea, eclectus parrot, crimson rosella, swift parrot, red-fan parrot, grey parrot, budgerigar and 86 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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kawy's list
subtrist, tricoteuse, undisonant, apricity, apricity, nudiustertian, snaste, chrestomath, chrestomath, velleity, zugzwang, muntin and 106 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 722 more...
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ynaffit's Words
sedulous, vituperative, pullulating, erstwhile, imbroglio, asperity, cynosure, adumbrate, prosopopoeia, peerless, calumny, ague and 272 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Scrabble
This list will help me beat Craig Fortier in Scrabble.
addax, kea, armet, vraic, verst, auric, thane, kef, kif, amort, ken, abaci and 2 more...
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Birds
Tweets
Looking for tweets for kea.

reesetee A large, stocky, dull-colored parrot native to New Zealand. Male has a long upper bill. Lives in forest or open country and lives on fruit, leaves, insects, or carrion; it also scavenges on refuse dumps. Nests in a hole. Feb 11, 2007