PARAKEET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parakeet mean? 

• PARAKEET (noun)
  The noun PARAKEET has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

  Familiarity information: PARAKEET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARAKEET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

parakeet; paraquet; paroquet; parrakeet; parroket; parroquet

Hypernyms ("parakeet" 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 "parakeet"):

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)