单词 | parroquet |
释义 | parroquet (once / 45635 pages) n WORD FAMILY parroquet: parroquets USAGE EXAMPLESWe also observed here, for the first time, the parroquet, which Bougainville described to be common in the Strait. Fitzroy, Robert, Narrative of the surveying voyages...(2012) Almost buried in folds of flesh is a pair of beady black eyes, as steady and wicked as those of a puff-adder or seaman's parroquet. MacKenzie, Compton, The Passionate Elopement(2011) Then came close to him a wonderfully-tinted parroquet, and then a lustrous sunbird began to dart about in an open space. Fenn, George Manville, One Maid's Mischief(2011) n any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots Syn|Hypo|Hyper parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket 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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