parakeet

par·a·keet

P0059300 (păr′ə-kēt′)n. 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.]

parakeet

(ˈpærəˌkiːt) or

parrakeet

n (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]

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 parrotsparaquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquetparrot - usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic soundsCarolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis - extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United Statesbudgereegah, 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 colorsPsittacula krameri, ring-necked parakeet - African parakeet

Translations

Sittichparrocchetto

parakeet

parrakeet,

common name for a widespread group of small parrotsparrot,
common name for members of the order Psittaciformes, comprising nearly 400 species of colorful birds, pantropical in distribution, including the parakeets. Parrots have large heads and short necks, strong feet with two toes in front and two in back (facilitating climbing
..... Click the link for more information. , native to the Indo-Malayan region and popular as cage birds. Parakeets have long, pointed tails, unlike the chunky lovebirds with which they are sometimes confused. The budgerigar, also called the shell, zebra, or grass, parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus), is the best known of the true parakeets. The wild budgerigar of Australia is usually green or blue with black-and-yellow markings; as a cage bird, however, it has been bred in white and yellow. The hanging parakeet sleeps upside down like a bat.

The extinct Carolina parakeet was the only parrot native to the United States. It was 12 in. (30 cm) long with a yellow-green body and orange-red head. It was sought as a cage bird and for its plumage, and was killed as a destroyer of fruit and grain crops. The budgerigar and other released or escaped nonnative parrots may be found in the United States, mainly in California, Texas, and Florida, but the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), also known as the monk parrot or Quaker parrot, a green and yellow bird with a pale gray forehead and breast and dark blue wing feathers, has well-established colonies in several northern and southern states. it is the only parrot that builds nests, often communal, of sticks.

Parakeets are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Psittaciformes, family Psittacidae.

parakeet

[′par·ə‚kēt] (vertebrate zoology) Any of various small, slender species of parrots with long tails in the family Psittacidae.

parakeet

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

parakeet

noun

Synonyms for parakeet

noun any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

Synonyms

paraquet
paroquet
parrakeet
parroket
parroquet

Related Words

parrot
Carolina parakeet
Conuropsis carolinensis
budgereegah
budgerigar
budgerygah
budgie
grass parakeet
lovebird
Melopsittacus undulatus
shell parakeet
Psittacula krameri
ring-necked parakeet