parakeet

Noun

Meaning

Same as Parrakeet.

Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

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It's how you get rid of cats. You get a 500-pound parakeet and teach it to say, "Here, kitty kitty kitty." Rick Cook

Like a parakeet that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says. Spanish Proverb

A few bones, including a pygostyle found at the Calvert Site in Southern Ontario, came from the Carolina parakeet. Source: Internet

Reasons for extinction Turnaround video of a mounted skeleton, Naturalis The evidence is rather conclusive that extinction of the Carolina parakeet was by anthropogenic activity, through a variety of means. Source: Internet

Upon finding out that she had used her apples making cobblers for the Metamucil Manor benevolence meal for Horace and Buna Mae upon the passing of their parakeet, Madge headed to Publix. Source: Internet

The authors note the bright yellow and orange plumage and blue wing feathers found in Conuropsis carolinensis are traits shared by another species, the jandaya parakeet (A. Source: Internet

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