parrakeet
Britishnoun
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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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The beautiful lorries, parrakeets, and budgerigars took little notice of the intruders, but went farther away, deserting half-built nests to build new ones.
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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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Only the wild parrakeets heard him; save for their calls, an ominous silence hung over the thick foliage of O-pip-ee.
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A dove—his parrakeet—came over and entered the wood; it was the same Bevis afterwards heard cooing.
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