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paraquet

paraquet is the dated form of parakeet.

Meaning of parakeet

Noun

parakeet (plural parakeets)

  1. Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.
    • we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of paraquet

pluralparaquets

Questions about paraquet

What is paraquet the dated form of?
Paraquet is the dated form of parakeet.

Words near paraquet in the dictionary

  1. paraquarkonium
  2. paraquat
  3. paraquats
  4. paraquel
  5. paraquels
  6. paraquet
  7. paraquets
  8. paraquinone
  9. paraquinones
  10. paraquito
  11. paraquitoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paraquet (page history and authors); parakeet (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.

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