| 单词 | amazon parrot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmazon parrot [ < the name of the River Amazon.] (Also with lower-case initial.) Any of numerous S. American parrots of the genus Amazona, often kept as cage-birds. Also Amazon parrot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > genus Amazona Amazon1878 1836 P. L. Selby in W. Jardine Naturalist's Libr.: Ornith. VI. 103 The true Amazons' Parrot has so frequently been confounded and mixed up with other nearly allied species, that a description of it may not be unacceptable to our readers.] 1878 C. E. Dyson Bird-Keeping 231 The common African Grey Parrot..and the Amazon Green Parrot are, perhaps, the most common in this country. 1934 W. S. Berridge All about Birds xxii. 242 The Amazon parrots are favourite cage-birds, the most familiar being the blue-fronted species. 1961 Guardian 4 Apr. 14/2, 10-year-old Polly Jolly, a green amazon, one of the birds stolen from a farm. 1985 Perrins & Middleton Encycl. Birds 227 In southeastern Brazil, for example, forest cover has been so reduced by felling that species such as the Glaucous macaw and the Red-tailed amazon are now seriously threatened. < as lemmas |
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