Meanings
plural paroquets
- archaicArchaic spelling of parakeet.
"[…]General Hamilton planted the gardens and shade trees himself, and just before Christmas, he wrote to General Pinckney in South Carolina and asked him to send him some melon seeds and two or three paroquets. 'My daughter (Angelica),' he said, 'is very fond of birds.' "
1924, Anne Carroll Moore, chapter XVI, in Nicholas, A Manhattan Christmas Story, page 287
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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