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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various small slender parrots, usually having long tapering tails and often kept as pets.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See parrakeet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Same as parrakeet.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish periquito, probably diminutive of Perico, diminutive of Pedro, Peter.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.

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