Word.ws English Dictionary

loory

loory is the archaic form of lory.

Meaning of lory

Noun

lory (plural lories)

  1. Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.
    • Just as we were going away, a handsome tree, allied to Erythrina, was in blossom, showing its masses of large crimson flowers scattered here and there about the forest. Could it have been seen from an elevation, it would have had a fine effect; from below I could only catch sight of masses of...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 278

Forms of loory

pluralloories

Questions about loory

What is loory the archaic form of?
Loory is the archaic form of lory.

Words near loory in the dictionary

  1. Loorana
  2. loord
  3. loords
  4. loories
  5. Loors
  6. loory
  7. loos
  8. loose
  9. loose ablative
  10. loose ablatives
  11. loose anagen hair syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loory (page history and authors); lory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “loory.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/loory. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.