English > parrot: 3 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds. |
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| Member of | Psittaciformes, order Psittaciformes | An order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets |
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| Narrower | African grey, African gray, Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face |
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| amazon | mainly green tropical American parrots |
| cockateel, cockatiel, cockatoo parrot, Nymphicus hollandicus | small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
| cockatoo | white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region |
| kea, Nestor notabilis | large brownish-green New Zealand parrot |
| lory | small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits |
| lovebird | small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates |
| macaw | long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America |
| parakeet, parrakeet, parroket, paraquet, paroquet, parroquet | Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots |
| poll, poll parrot | A tame parrot |
| popinjay | An archaic term for a parrot |
| Broader | bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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| Spanish | loro, papagayo, psittaciformes |
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| Catalan | lloro |
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