rosella
noun
ro·sel·la
rōˈzelə
plural -s
1
: an Australian parakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird having the head and back of the neck scarlet and the cheeks white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast red and yellow
broadly : any parakeet of the genus Platycercus
2
Australia : a sheep that has shed a portion of its wool
Word History
Etymology
irregular from Rosehill, district near Sydney, southeast Australia
First Known Use
1829, in the meaning defined at sense 1