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- Dictionaryparrot/ˈparət/
noun
- 1. a bird, often vividly coloured, with a short downcurved hooked bill, grasping feet, and a raucous voice, found especially in the tropics and feeding on fruits and seeds. Many are popular as cage birds, and some are able to mimic the human voice.
verb
- 1. repeat mechanically: "encouraging students to parrot back information"
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A parrot is a tropical bird with a curved beak, often kept as a pet and trained to copy the human voice. Learn more about the noun and verb forms of parrot, and see translations in different languages.
Learn the meaning of parrot as a noun and a verb, with synonyms, examples, and word history. Find out how to distinguish a parrot from a parakeet, a macaw, or a cockatoo.
Parrots are the only creatures that display true tripedalism, using their necks and beaks as limbs with propulsive forces equal to or greater than those forces generated by the forelimbs of primates when climbing vertical surfaces. They can travel with cyclical tripedal gaits when climbing. [7] Taxonomy. Origins and evolution.
Parrot definition: any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.. See examples of PARROT used in a sentence.
Learn the meaning of parrot as a noun and a verb, and see how to use it in sentences. Find out the origin, pronunciation, and related words of parrot in British and American English.
Parrot is a term for a group of colorful and noisy birds of the family Psittacidae, which includes macaws, parakeets, and cockatoos. Learn about the diversity, distribution, behavior, and ecology of parrots from Britannica's experts.
A parrot is a brightly colored tropical bird with a distinctly loud voice. If you see someone calling a colorful bird "Polly" and asking it if it wants a cracker, that's a parrot.
