PARROQUET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parroquet mean? 

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

1. any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARROQUET (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 ("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)

 Context examples 

I served ’em with drink, and stayed with ’em just to see that they didn’t lay their ’ands on the stuffed parroquet and the pictures.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)