parrakeet

/ ˈpærəˌkiːt /

noun

a variant spelling of parakeet

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A few stage-gipsies with green parrakeets had made the town their summer home.

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The parrots are restricted to parrakeets, of which there are several species, and a single small lory.

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Where the drunken and ribald song of the muleteer rose about the camp-fire at night, canaries and parrakeets now chatter and sing.

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Parrots and parrakeets, of lovely plumage, fluttered nearer, holding low their wise, old-fashioned heads to look and listen.

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Dragonflies appeared in mid-air, martins left their nests among the beams, parrakeets crossed over from their roosts, and swifts met them coming from their sleeping quarters in hollow trees.

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