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n. - Any of numerous small slender long-tailed tropical birds.

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  • The paroquet was a splendid creature, with a brilliant orange throat darkly spotted.
  • Among them we observed a pretty kind of paroquet, with a green body, a blue head, and a red breast; also a few beautiful turtle-doves, and several flocks of wood-pigeons.
  • Here vain tastes prevail for golden pheasant and blue and crimson paroquet.
  • He came to me, just now, so prim, and so pleased A parrot and paroquet The parrot is the finest talker!
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