parakeet

Related topics: Birds

par·a·keet /ˈpærəkiːt/ noun [countableC]

HBBa small brightly coloured bird with a long tail 长尾（小）鹦鹉

Examples from the Corpus

parakeet• The housekeeper, Mary McLellan, served Dubonnet, Margarett opened the aviary, and a parakeet flew to her shoulder.• She came with a parakeet in a cage.• She turned slowly in the middle of the living room, like a gyrating parakeet.• Meanwhile the colt galloped back and forth behind him, and the parakeets squawked.• There was nobody in the shop but the parakeet.• The parakeets were at it again, their squawks rising like shifting clouds.• The sunglasses, decorated with parakeets, are from a New York novelty shop.

Origin parakeet

(1500-1600) Spanish periquito, from Old French perroquet; → PARROT1

单词	parakeet
释义	parakeet Related topics: Birds par·a·keet /ˈpærəkiːt/ noun [countableC] HBBa small brightly coloured bird with a long tail 长尾（小）鹦鹉 Examples from the Corpus parakeet• The housekeeper, Mary McLellan, served Dubonnet, Margarett opened the aviary, and a parakeet flew to her shoulder.• She came with a parakeet in a cage.• She turned slowly in the middle of the living room, like a gyrating parakeet.• Meanwhile the colt galloped back and forth behind him, and the parakeets squawked.• There was nobody in the shop but the parakeet.• The parakeets were at it again, their squawks rising like shifting clouds.• The sunglasses, decorated with parakeets, are from a New York novelty shop. Origin parakeet (1500-1600) Spanish periquito, from Old French perroquet; → PARROT1
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