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parrot         
  • Video of an orange-winged amazon saying "hello" having been prompted by some humans
  • [[Scarlet macaw]] riding a tricycle at a show in Spain
  • Ara ararauna]]'') skeleton on display at the [[Museum of Osteology]].
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  • Most parrot species are tropical, but a few species, like this [[austral parakeet]], range deeply into temperate zones.
  • [[Eclectus parrot]]s, male left and female right
  • [[Glossy black cockatoo]] showing the parrot's strong bill, clawed feet, and sideways-positioned eyes
  • access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
  • 75px
  • A mounted specimen of the [[Carolina parakeet]], which was hunted to extinction
  • The [[kea]] is the only alpine parrot.
  • Macaw parrot sitting on a tree branch
  • pages=405–419}}</ref>
  • Moche parrot, 200 CE [[Larco Museum]] Collection Lima, Peru
  • Skeleton of a parrot
  • Fossil skull of a presumed parrot relative from the Eocene [[Green River Formation]] in [[Wyoming]]
  • clay lick]] in Ecuador
  • [[Senegal parrot]] in conservatory
  • Feral [[red-masked parakeet]]s in San Francisco
  • Pet [[Cuban amazon]]s in [[Cuba]]
  • 75px
  • The vast majority of parrots are, like this [[rose-ringed parakeet]], cavity nesters.
  • A rose-ringed parakeet
  • [[Sun conure]] demonstrating parrots' puzzle-solving skills
  • oviraptorosaur]]
  • A [[yellow-tailed black cockatoo]] using its strong bill to search for grubs
ORDER OF BIRDS
Parots; Parrots; Parrot (order); Flighted pet parrots; Psittaciform; Beedeas; Psittaciformes; Psittaci; 🦜
(parrots, parroting, parroted)
1.
A parrot is a tropical bird with a curved beak and brightly-coloured or grey feathers. Parrots can be kept as pets. Some parrots are able to copy what people say.
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2.
If you disapprove of the fact that someone is just repeating what someone else has said, often without really understanding it, you can say that they are parroting it.
Generations of students have learnt to parrot the standard explanations.
= repeat
VERB: V n [disapproval]
parrot         
  • Video of an orange-winged amazon saying "hello" having been prompted by some humans
  • [[Scarlet macaw]] riding a tricycle at a show in Spain
  • Ara ararauna]]'') skeleton on display at the [[Museum of Osteology]].
  • 75px
  • Most parrot species are tropical, but a few species, like this [[austral parakeet]], range deeply into temperate zones.
  • [[Eclectus parrot]]s, male left and female right
  • [[Glossy black cockatoo]] showing the parrot's strong bill, clawed feet, and sideways-positioned eyes
  • access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
  • 75px
  • A mounted specimen of the [[Carolina parakeet]], which was hunted to extinction
  • The [[kea]] is the only alpine parrot.
  • Macaw parrot sitting on a tree branch
  • pages=405–419}}</ref>
  • Moche parrot, 200 CE [[Larco Museum]] Collection Lima, Peru
  • Skeleton of a parrot
  • Fossil skull of a presumed parrot relative from the Eocene [[Green River Formation]] in [[Wyoming]]
  • clay lick]] in Ecuador
  • [[Senegal parrot]] in conservatory
  • Feral [[red-masked parakeet]]s in San Francisco
  • Pet [[Cuban amazon]]s in [[Cuba]]
  • 75px
  • The vast majority of parrots are, like this [[rose-ringed parakeet]], cavity nesters.
  • A rose-ringed parakeet
  • [[Sun conure]] demonstrating parrots' puzzle-solving skills
  • oviraptorosaur]]
  • A [[yellow-tailed black cockatoo]] using its strong bill to search for grubs
ORDER OF BIRDS
Parots; Parrots; Parrot (order); Flighted pet parrots; Psittaciform; Beedeas; Psittaciformes; Psittaci; 🦜
n.
See poll.
Parrot         
  • Video of an orange-winged amazon saying "hello" having been prompted by some humans
  • [[Scarlet macaw]] riding a tricycle at a show in Spain
  • Ara ararauna]]'') skeleton on display at the [[Museum of Osteology]].
  • 75px
  • Most parrot species are tropical, but a few species, like this [[austral parakeet]], range deeply into temperate zones.
  • [[Eclectus parrot]]s, male left and female right
  • [[Glossy black cockatoo]] showing the parrot's strong bill, clawed feet, and sideways-positioned eyes
  • access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
  • 75px
  • A mounted specimen of the [[Carolina parakeet]], which was hunted to extinction
  • The [[kea]] is the only alpine parrot.
  • Macaw parrot sitting on a tree branch
  • pages=405–419}}</ref>
  • Moche parrot, 200 CE [[Larco Museum]] Collection Lima, Peru
  • Skeleton of a parrot
  • Fossil skull of a presumed parrot relative from the Eocene [[Green River Formation]] in [[Wyoming]]
  • clay lick]] in Ecuador
  • [[Senegal parrot]] in conservatory
  • Feral [[red-masked parakeet]]s in San Francisco
  • Pet [[Cuban amazon]]s in [[Cuba]]
  • 75px
  • The vast majority of parrots are, like this [[rose-ringed parakeet]], cavity nesters.
  • A rose-ringed parakeet
  • [[Sun conure]] demonstrating parrots' puzzle-solving skills
  • oviraptorosaur]]
  • A [[yellow-tailed black cockatoo]] using its strong bill to search for grubs
ORDER OF BIRDS
Parots; Parrots; Parrot (order); Flighted pet parrots; Psittaciform; Beedeas; Psittaciformes; Psittaci; 🦜
·vi To chatter like a parrot.
II. Parrot ·vt To repeat by rote, as a parrot.
III. Parrot ·noun In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.
IV. Parrot ·noun Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.

Wikipedia

Parrot
File:Parrot montage.jpg|300px|alt=A montage of six different types of parrot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot
Pronunciation examples for parrot
1. Blue Parrot.
Downey _ Talks at Google
2. Like a parrot?
Life, Animated _ Ron Suskind _ Talks at Google
3. parrot on the cover?"
Downey _ Talks at Google
4. Mr Cotton's parrot, same question.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
5. He said, the parrot sketch.
_ John Cleese _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of parrot
1. Two cats and a parrot died from smoke inhalation.
2. NEW YORK –– Missing: one parrot with Brooklyn accent.
3. Playing the Parrot Card Our modern–day image of a pirate usually comes fully outfitted with peg–leg, eye–patch, and parrot.
4. The wild parrot population has exploded in Britain.
5. Barnes has never won the Booker, though Flaubert‘s Parrot was shortlisted in 1'84.
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