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What's The Definition Of Parrot?
[n] usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
[n] a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated [v] repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words" Synonyms | Synonyms for Parrot: Related Terms | Find terms related to Parrot: anal character | ape | Babbitt | bourgeois | burgher | come again | commit to memory | compulsive character | con | conformer | conformist | conventionalist | copier | copy | copycat | copyist | counterfeiter | cuckoo | dissembler | dissimulator | ditto | do a repeat | do again | do over | double | duplicate | echo | echoer | echoist | faker | forger | formalist | get by heart | get letter-perfect | have by heart | hit off | hit off on | hypocrite | imitate | imitator | impersonate | impersonator | impostor | know by heart | learn by heart | learn verbatim | memorize | methodologist | Middle American | middle-class type | mime | mimer | mimic | mimicker | mock | mocker | mockingbird | model child | monkey | organization man | pedant | perfectionist | Philistine | phony | plagiarist | plagiarize | plastic person | poll-parrot | polly | polly-parrot | poseur | precisian | precisianist | quote | recite | redo | redouble | reduplicate | reecho | regurgitate | reincarnate | reiterate | renew | repeat | repeat by heart | reproduce | revive | say again | sheep | simulator | square | study | swot up | take off | take off on | teenybopper | trimmer | yes-man See Also | African gray | amazon | ape | aper | bird | cockateel | cockatiel | cockatoo | cockatoo parrot | copycat | echo | emulator | imitator | kea | lory | lovebird | macaw | Nestor notabilis | Nymphicus hollandicus | order Psittaciformes | parakeet | paraquet | paroquet | parrakeet | parroket | parroquet | poll | poll parrot | popinjay | Psittaciformes | Psittacus erithacus | repeat Parrot In Webster's Dictionary \Par"rot\, n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim. of Pierre
Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow. Cf.
{Paroquet}, {Petrel}, {Petrify}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) In a general sense, any bird of the order
{Psittaci}.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of {Psittacus}, {Chrysotis},
{Pionus}, and other genera of the family {Psittacid[ae]},
as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories.
They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked
space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako ({P.
erithacus}) of Africa (see {Jako}), and the species of
Amazon, or green, parrots ({Chrysotis}) of America, are
examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to
imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
{Carolina parrot} (Zo["o]l.), the Carolina parrakeet. See
{Parrakeet}.
{Night parrot}, or {Owl parrot}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Kakapo}.
{Parrot coal}, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling
and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.]
{Parrot green}. (Chem.) See {Scheele's green}, under {Green},
n.
{Parrot weed} (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant ({Bocconia
frutescens}) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer
parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid
leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.
{Parrot wrasse}, {Parrot fish} (Zo["o]l.), any fish of the
genus {Scarus}. One species ({S. Cretensis}), found in the
Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly
prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
\Par"rot\, v. t. To repeat by rote, as a parrot. \Par"rot\, v. i. To chatter like a parrot. |
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