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单词 parrot-bills
释义

parrot /parˈət/

noun
  1. One of a family of tropical and subtropical birds with brilliant plumage, a hooked bill, and zygodactyl feet, good imitators of human speech
  2. An uncritical repeater of the words of others
transitive verb (parrˈoting; parrˈoted)
  1. To repeat by rote
  2. To teach to repeat by rote
intransitive verb (also transitive verb with it)

To talk like a parrot

ORIGIN: Poss Fr Perrot, dimin of Pierre Peter

parrˈoter noun

parrˈotry noun

Unintelligent imitation

parrˈoty adjective

Like a parrot or parrot-coal

parrˈot-beak, parrˈot-bill or parrˈot-jaw noun

The New Zealand glory-pea, from the form of its flowers

parrˈot-coal noun (Scot)

Cannel-coal (possibly from chattering as it burns)

parrˈot-cryˈ noun

A catchphrase senselessly repeated from mouth to mouth

parrot disease or parrot fever noun

Psittacosis

parrˈot-fashion adverb

By rote

parrˈot-fish noun

A name applied to various fishes, esp of the wrasse family and the related Scaridae, from their colours or their powerful jaws

parrot mouth noun

A congenital malformation of the jaw that occurs in horses and other grazing animals preventing normal feeding

parrˈot-wrasseˈ noun

A parrot-fish, esp a Mediterranean species (Scarus cretensis) prized by the ancients

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