parrakeet

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"Nor can the thrush be tamed to sit the finger like the parrakeet," I completed.

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  1. A parrot; especially, a small parrot; one of many different birds of the family Psittacidæ distinguished from macaws, cockatoos, lories, and certain parrots proper. The parrots most frequently called parrakeets are undersized, with comparatively slender body and long cuneate tail, as those of the genera Palæornis, Platycercus, Pezoporus, Melopsittacus, Euphema, Nymphicus, etc., of the Old World, and Conurus of the New. They are thus distinguished from the larger, heavy-bodied parrots with short tails, as species of Psittacus proper. The common parrakeet of the United States is Conurus carolinensis, green varied with red and yellow. The commonest parrakeet in India is the rose-ringed, Palæornis torquatus. The rosella or nonpareil parrakeet is platycercus’ eximius, a very beautiful bird, chiefly red and blue. Nymphicus novæ-hollandiæ is the crested parrakeet, or parrakeet-cockatoo. Ground-parrakeets are Australian species of Pezoporus, as P. formosus. Grass-parrakeets belong to the genus Euphema. The warbling or zebra grass-parrakeet is Melopsittacus undulatus. Hanging-parrakeets are certain lories. (See lory.) Various lovebirds are often called parrakeets. See the technical names. See also cuts under Agapornis, Conurus, corella, Euphema, and Melopsittacus. I would not give my Paroquet For all the Doves that ever flew. Prior, The Dove, st.23.
  2. A fish of the genus Crenilabrus; a parrotwrasse. Some Crenilabri are so brilliant that they are called in Rome Papagelli or Parrakeets. Richardson, Museum Nat. Hist., p. 119.
  3. Racquet-tailed parrakeet a parrot of the genus Prioniturus, found in the Philippine Islands, having the median tail feathers expanded at the ends.
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  • "Why didn't you come earlier Call him a parrakeet," said Syd. —  Adventures in Many Lands
  • "Nor can the thrush be tamed to sit the finger like the parrakeet," I completed. —  Montlivet
  • It contained a Rajputana parrakeet, not much larger than a robin, but possessor of a soul as fierce as that of Palladia, minus, however, the smoothing influence of chivalry. —  Parrot ; Co.
  • This parrakeet is the only member of its order that ranged into the United States during our own times, and with its disappearance the Order Psittaciformes totally disappears from our country CHAPTER III THE NEXT CANDIDATES FOR OBLIVION In the world of human beings, murder is the most serious of all crimes. —  Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • Mammals extinct, bison NEBRASKA Curlew, wild turkey, parrakeet, passenger pigeon, whooping crane, and no doubt all the other species that have disappeared from Kansas. —  Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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  1. Also parakeet, and parakeeto, paraquito, paraquita; also, after F., paroquet, parroquet, paraquet, perroquet, from French perroquet, Old French also parroquet = Italian parrocchetto, perrocchetto, parrucchetto; from Spanish Portuguese periquito, diminutive of Spanish (not Portuguese) perico, a parrot; apparently literally ‘little Peter,’ from Pedro, from Latin Petrus, Peter, from Greek πέτρος, Peter, πέτρος, a rock: see pier, and Cf. petrel. Cf. also parrot.
 

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