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Paroquet   Listen
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Paroquet  n.  (Written also paroket, parroquet, and perroquet)  (Zool.) Same as Parrakeet.
Paroquet auk or Paroquet auklet (Zool.), a small auk (Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also perroquet auk.






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"Paroquet" Quotes from Famous Books



... a superb Oriental sultana, with lustrous dark eyes, redundant form, jewelled turban, standing leaning on the balustrade of a princely terrace, and bearing on her hand, not the silver dove, but a gorgeous paroquet. The two styles, in this instance, were both in the same room; and as Burr sat looking from one to the other, he felt, for a moment, as one would who should put a sketch of Overbeck's beside a splendid ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various

... fair sample of the needlework picture of this time. The picture is a strange mixture of the early Stuart Petit Point, the Jacobean wall-hanging, and the newly revived religious spirit. The duck-pond, the swans and the water-plants might have been copied bodily from James I.'s time. The paroquet and the flying bird, and the immense leaves and blossoms, are direct from the wall-hangings, while the figures only too surely foretell the coming dark days of needlecraft, when a Scripture picture and a coarsely worked sampler were part of every girl's liberal education. ...
— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes

... return I found them still slumbering, so I again lay down to think over our situation. Just at that moment I was attracted by the sight of a very small parrot, which Jack afterwards told me was called a paroquet. It was seated on a twig that overhung Peterkin's head, and I was speedily lost in admiration of its bright green plumage, which was mingled with other gay colours. While I looked I observed that the bird turned ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Paroquet" :   parroquet, shell parakeet, paraquet, grass parakeet, parroket, Psittacula krameri, lovebird, budgerigar, Conuropsis carolinensis, budgereegah, parrakeet, ring-necked parakeet, Carolina parakeet, budgerygah, Melopsittacus undulatus



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