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Definition of kea in English: keanoun ˈkiːəkiə A New Zealand mountain parrot with a long, narrow bill and mainly olive-green plumage, sometimes feeding on carrion. 啄羊鹦鹉 Nestor notabilis, family Psittacidae Example sentencesExamples - We'll have to fend off keas from our lunch during the day and secure our packs tight at night.
- New Zealand's kea parrots started to attack and eat sheep.
- I can tell the member that the kea badge is proudly displayed on my fridge.
- Birds as a whole feed on a wide range of foods, from fish and flesh to insects to fruits and seeds, and in the case of the New Zealand kea, occasionally sheep's blood.
- Beware the kea, a ten-pound mountain parrot that loves to chew and destroy all things indispensable: tents, packs, boots, and jackets.
- All year round visitors are enchanted by the antics of New Zealand's high country parrot, the kea.
- In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
- New Zealand motorists have to beware a native parrot, the kea, which is just as keen on pecking off rubber windscreen wipers and window surrounds.
- They can also carry diseases that are a potential threat to native parrots such as kakariki and kea, he said.
- In winter when food is scarce, keas have been known to feed on the fatty internal organs of dead and live sheep in the high country.
OriginMid 19th century: from Maori, imitative of its call. RhymesAchaea, aliyah, Almería, Apia, Bahía, Caesarea, Cassiopeia, Chaldea, Cytherea, Euboea, foreseer, freer, galleria, gynaecea, Iphigenia, Kampuchea, keyer, Latakia, Leah, Lucia, Nicaea, Nicosia, onomatopoeia, Oriya, osteria, Pangaea, Pantelleria, pharmacopoeia, pizzeria, ria, rupiah, sangría, seer, sharia, Shia, skier, spiraea (US spirea), Tanzania, taqueria, Tarpeia, Thea, trachea, trattoria, urea Definition of kea in US English: keanounkiəkēə A New Zealand mountain parrot with a long, narrow bill and mainly olive-green plumage. 啄羊鹦鹉 Nestor notabilis, family Psittacidae Example sentencesExamples - In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
- They can also carry diseases that are a potential threat to native parrots such as kakariki and kea, he said.
- I can tell the member that the kea badge is proudly displayed on my fridge.
- We'll have to fend off keas from our lunch during the day and secure our packs tight at night.
- Birds as a whole feed on a wide range of foods, from fish and flesh to insects to fruits and seeds, and in the case of the New Zealand kea, occasionally sheep's blood.
- Beware the kea, a ten-pound mountain parrot that loves to chew and destroy all things indispensable: tents, packs, boots, and jackets.
- New Zealand motorists have to beware a native parrot, the kea, which is just as keen on pecking off rubber windscreen wipers and window surrounds.
- New Zealand's kea parrots started to attack and eat sheep.
- In winter when food is scarce, keas have been known to feed on the fatty internal organs of dead and live sheep in the high country.
- All year round visitors are enchanted by the antics of New Zealand's high country parrot, the kea.
OriginMid 19th century: from Maori, imitative of its call. |