PARROT
\pˈaɹət], \pˈaɹət], \p_ˈa_ɹ_ə_t]\
Definitions of PARROT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
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a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
By Princeton University
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usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
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a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.
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Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
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To repeat by rote, as a parrot.
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To chatter like a parrot.
By Oddity Software
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In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.
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Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
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To repeat by rote, as a parrot.
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To chatter like a parrot.
By Noah Webster.
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Birds widely distributed in tropical regions and having a distinctive stout curved cered hooked bill whose upper mandible is movably hinged to the skull. Parrots are often crested and highly variegated and are excellent mimics. They often readily learn to simulate laughter and crying and to enunciate words and phrases. (Webster, 3d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of a family of tropical birds, with brilliant plumage and a hooked bill, remarkable for their faculty of imitating the human voice.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A climbing bird of the genus Psittacus, of brilliant colour, having a "fleshy tongue, and a short, hooked bill, toothed above. Some of the species are remarkable for their loquacity and power of imitating vocal sounds, especially those of the human voice;—hence, a chatterer;—one who echoes or repeats the language or sentiments of another.
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