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PARROQUET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

Synonyms:

parakeet; paraquet; paroquet; parrakeet; parroket; parroquet

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("parroquet" is a kind of...):

parrot (usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parroquet"):

Carolina parakeet; Conuropsis carolinensis (extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States)

budgereegah; budgerigar; budgerygah; budgie; grass parakeet; lovebird; Melopsittacus undulatus; shell parakeet (small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors)

Psittacula krameri; ring-necked parakeet (African parakeet)

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