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par·a·keet

(păr′ə-kēt′)

Any of various small slender parrots, usually having long tapering tails and often kept as pets.

[From Middle French perroquet, probably originally a pet name for persons called Pierre, Peter, from Old French, from Latin Petrus.]

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parakeet

(ˈpærəˌkiːt) or

parrakeet

(Animals) any of numerous small usually brightly coloured long-tailed parrots, such as Psittacula krameri (ring-necked parakeet), of Africa

[C16: from Spanish periquito and Old French paroquet parrot, of uncertain origin]

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par•a•keet

(ˈpær əˌkit)

n.

any of various small parrots having a long, graduated tail, as the budgerigar and New World parrots of the genus Aratinga and allied genera.

[1575–85; < Middle French paroquet, appar. orig. a diminutive of P(i)errot, diminutive of Pierre Peter, as a name for a parrot]

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Noun

parakeet - any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet

parrot - usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds

Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis - extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States

budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet - small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors

Psittacula krameri, ring-necked parakeet - African parakeet

Translations

Sittich

parrocchetto

parakeet

[ˈpærəkiːt] N → perico m, periquito m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

parakeet

parrakeet [ˈpærəkiːt] n → perruche f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

parakeet

n → Sittich m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

parakeet

[ˈpærəkiːt] n → parrocchetto

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

References in classic literature ?

A band of braided grasses about her brow held in place a few gaudy feathers from the parakeet, while other bits of grass were fashioned into imitations of arm and leg ornaments of metal.

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By this time the sun was driving broad golden spokes through the lower branches of the mango-trees; the parakeets and doves were coming.

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Known in its native New Zealand as the kakariki karaka, the orange-fronted parakeet lives in beech forests and was thought to be completely extinct until 1993.

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Fast-forward 30 years, the squawk of an alien ring-necked parakeet - the UK's only naturalised parrot - is now the most frequent "birdsong" I hear.

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If you haven't yet seen a ring-necked parakeet in our region, then you will very soon.

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A dad has been accused of child abuse after he shared a picture of his four-year-old son holding a gun and a dead parakeet.

Dad accused of abuse after sharing snap of son holding gun after shooting parrot; The little boy was pictured holding the bird upside down in one hand and the single-barrel .410 in the other hand in Hertfordshire

The 25-year old document clearing agent first spotted his parakeet pal looking worse for wear with hardly any feathers for sale on a stall in a souq in Isa Town.

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Of the 10 samples positive for genotype A (cockatiels [Nymphicus hollandicus, n = 5], ring-necked parakeet [Psittacula krameri, n = 2], African gray parrot [Psittacus erithacus, n = 3]), 6 samples were from asymptomatic and 4 from symptomatic birds.

Detection of Chlamydia psittaci Genotypes Among Birds in Northeast Iran

RSPCA Cymru is appealing for information after a lost parakeet was found in Cardiff.

'Friendly' parakeet found in city garden

He added that breeding of the Peacocks, Pheasants (Surkhab), Deer, Chukar Patridge, Alexandrine Parakeet (Speaker parrot) and some others was in progress in the district.