macaw
any of various large, long-tailed parrots of tropical and subtropical America, noted for their brilliant plumage and distinctive light-colored facial patches: of the six macaw genera, Ara includes the most familiar and greatest number of species, while Cyanopsitta has just one species, C. spixii(Spix's macaw ), a small, blue macaw, now classified as possibly extinct in the wild.
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How to use macaw in a sentence
It’s very hot in the rainforests, and we were filming little poison dart frogs and scarlet macaws.
David Attenborough’s Life in Color - Issue 107: The Edge | Mary Ellen Hannibal | September 29, 2021 | NautilusBut those who had chosen the macaw, became the macaw People.
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest | Katharine Berry JudsonIt consisted of a monologue delivered by the poisonous young woman to the macaw, occasionally varied by ad lib.
The Book of Susan | Lee Wilson DoddOne could hardly call him a crimson macaw among owls, and yet no ordinary contrast availed.
The Education of Henry Adams | Henry AdamsNext morning a kangaroo and a macaw strolled into Raikes's bedroom.
Atlantic Classics | Various
On the top of the next tree sat an extraordinary-looking bird, about the size of a pheasant, colored blue and rose like a macaw.
In the Morning of Time | Charles G. D. Roberts
British Dictionary definitions for macaw
/ (məˈkɔː) /
any large tropical American parrot of the genera Ara and Anodorhynchus, having a long tail and brilliant plumage
Origin of macaw
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