- a variation of parakeet.
parrakeet
Britishnoun
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That Carolina parrakeet is mentioned almost all the way across Kansas by the Oregon Trail men, and it used to be thick in middle Illinois.
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
But they found the house empty, except for a chattering monkey and a screaming parrakeet, both attached to pedestal perches.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
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
Illinois: Passenger pigeon, whooping crane, Carolina parrakeet, trumpeter swan, snowy egret, Eskimo curlew; bison, elk, white-tailed deer, black bear, puma, Canada lynx.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
In the aisle beside her is an extremely indignant parrakeet in a cage.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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