| 单词 | parrot-faculty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparrot-faculty parrot-faculty n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > condition or faculty of being parrot-faculty1846 parrothood1894 1846 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 466/2 This bird's chief faculty was singing, seldom a parrot faculty, but its ear was so perfect, that it acquired tunes with great rapidity. 1867 J. S. Blackie in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 24 4 The delighted parent, by the exercise of the parrot faculty, immediately forms a name for his son. 1919 E. B. Miles Our Southern Birds 29 Whether Crows have the parrot faculty of imitating sounds of speech or not, it is certain that they have a greater range of signals and communication-sounds of their own than other birds < as lemmas |
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