单词 | paroquet |
释义 | paroquet (once / 20773 pages) n WORD FAMILY paroquet: paroquets USAGE EXAMPLESOn Fourteenth Street a big black-haired man and a little spectacled woman stop to laugh at the fortune-telling paroquets. Kilmer, Joyce, The Circus, and Other Essays and Fu...(2012) He closed his eyes, and was only conscious of the cataract of sound raised by the shrieking paroquets and the manifold hum of insects. Knight, Edward Frederick, A Desperate Voyage(2012) And then," Mr. Pybus winked, much after the fashion of a mischievous paroquet, "we'll knock the stool from under 'em by nominating you! Weyman, Stanley J., Chippinge Borough(2012) n any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots Syn|Hypo|Hyper parakeet, paraquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States Melopsittacus undulatus, budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeetsmall Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors Psittacula krameri, ring-necked parakeetAfrican parakeet parrot usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds |
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