Rosehilln.
/ˈrəʊzˌhɪl/, U.S. /ˈroʊzˌhɪl/ I. Compounds.
1. Rosehill parakeet n. (also Rosehill parrot) now historical the eastern rosella parakeet, Platycercus eximius; cf. rosella n. 1.
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1810 E. Bent Lett. 27 July 187 I have now..two Rose Hill Parrots.
1835 Introd. Study Birds (Religious Tract Soc.) 314 We may notice the Nonpareil or Rose-Hill Parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) as an example.
1865 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864 713 List of additions to the Society's menagerie during the year 1864... 3 Rose-hill Parrakeets.
1931 N. W. Cayley What Bird is That? 145 Eastern Rosella... Also called Rosella, Rosehill Parakeet, and Nonpareil Parrot.
1966 P. R. Stephensen Hist. & Descr. Sydney Harbour xii. 297 [They] became known to the pioneer settlers as ‘Rose-Hillers’ (Rose Hill parrots), a name later transformed to Rosella parrots.
2003 S. Morgan Land Settlem. in Early Tasmania vii. 116 In the same way, green and ‘rose-hill’ parrots were slaughtered because they were deemed destructive to ripe grain and corn stacks.
II. Simple uses.
2. = Rosehill parakeet n. at sense 1. Now rare.
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1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. 323 Our parrot-tribes are of infinite variety... The little rosehill with his red head, yellow breast, and tastefully mottled plumage, the blue mountain decked out in all the colours of the rainbow.
1845 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 29 Platycercus icterotis... Moy-a-duk, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia. Rose-hill of the Colonists.
1912 Ann. Rep. (Zool. Soc. Philadelphia) 30 None of these newly arrived birds, even the Rosehills and Pennant's, were found infested.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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