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US
/ˈpɛɹət/
]
[ UK /pˈæɹət/ ]
[ UK /pˈæɹət/ ]
NOUN
- a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
- usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
VERB
-
repeat mindlessly
The students parroted the teacher's words
How To Use parrot In A Sentence
- The DOJ thing is pretty strange, and will probably get modified, but all I can say is how nice it is that Dems aren't all on the same page, parroting the same opinions, baaing like conservatives. Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
- My favourite it the Magpie- my friend made a film about them a couple of years ago and i'm in it saying 'they're like English parrots don't you think?' and then going on to show how I think they have really great bums that you just want to squoosh your face in. It's a Giveaway!!!!
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- Rather like Norwegian parrots, most are bereft of life. Times, Sunday Times
- The foreign birds, most of these parrots and cockatoos, unfortunately need to be kept in cages.
- This small granivorous parrot is native to grasslands and forest edges of northern South America.
- Their acumen was revealed in experiments on 33 hand-reared parrots from four species. The Sun
- Also known as a ‘parrot lizard’ for its parrotlike beak, the herbivore was a strong, agile dinosaur that walked on its two hind legs.
- Other birds that utilize this ecoregion are yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), yucatan parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatán bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), and zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita). Petenes mangroves
- On the wall alongside us was a tiled, tropical landscape of pastel cockatoos and parrots.