- a variation of parakeet.
parrakeet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Which will you have, old chap—magpie, parrakeet, pigeon, monkey, or mice?” said young Essington, gayly.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
It contained a Rajputana parrakeet, not much larger than a robin, but possessor of a soul as fierce as that of Palladia, minus, however, the smoothing influence of chivalry.
From Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath
Alabama: Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet; puma, elk, gray wolf, beaver.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
In another parrakeet of the same country “some individuals have the band across the wing-coverts bright-yellow, while in others the same part is tinged with red.”
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin
Everywhere else than in Florida, the Carolina parrakeet has long been extinct.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
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