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Paroquet

noun

(Written also paroket, parroquet, and perroquet)

Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots. Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet.

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"Paroquet" Quotes from Famous Books

... Yorkshire terrier; then Doctor Todd, unchanged, in the same clothes in which he had sailed, for he was one of those men who could go twice around the world and collect nothing but statistics and postcards; then Mrs. Todd with her two greatest acquisitions in bold evidence, a lorgnette and a caged paroquet. ...

— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd

... white cockatoo, the beautiful lilac-headed paroquet, and the bald-headed mocking bird of Port Jackson, were seen here; but there were not any marks of ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins

... forgotten that Lieutenant Murden sent this letter by me. Good night. I'll see you again to-morrow some time, but it will be late in the evening;" and with these words he stole from the store as noiselessly as a serpent creeping towards a paroquet ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

Words linked to "Paroquet" : paraquet, budgerygah, budgie, Psittacula krameri, parrot, parroket, lovebird, parrakeet, shell parakeet, ring-necked parakeet, budgereegah, Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis, grass parakeet, budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus, parakeet