Meanings
nounparroquet (plural parroquets)
plural parroquets
- archaicArchaic spelling of parakeet.
Others soon follow his example; lories and parroquets cry shrilly, cockatoos scream, king-hunters croak and bark, and the various smaller birds chirp and whistle their morning song.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 225
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots
Broader
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