Crossword-Solution: PARROT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parrot | n. | In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. |
| Parrot | n. | 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. |
| Parrot | v. t. | To repeat by rote, as a parrot. |
| Parrot | v. i. | To chatter like a parrot. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PARROT | anagram | PROTRA, RAPTOR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PARROT (5)
Yes—the elephant, the monkey, the horse, the dog, the parrot, the macaw, the mocking-bird, and many others.
Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.
The parrot and the mocking-bird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished.
The chief offender seemed to be his highness’s brother, whose name alone would lengthen the old man’s lantern jaws and pucker his parrot nose into a sneer.
Even though many were able to pursue the course, most of them did so in a parrot-like way, learning what was taught, but not seeming to appropriate the truth and import of their instruction, and graduating without sensible aim or valuable occupation for their future.
Quotes with PARROT (3)
Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life — if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a …
Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday. Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardo's horrified shriek…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 109 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).