parrakeet
Britishnoun
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There were more farewells in shallow water, more running to and fro; a brief reappearance of the undecided parrakeet.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
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 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
Something of this new interest must have penetrated the señora’s consciousness, for her wailing ceased; she cocked her head on one side like a listening parrakeet.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
In the aisle beside her is an extremely indignant parrakeet in a cage.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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