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paraquito

paraquito is the archaic 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 paraquito

pluralparaquitos
pluralparaquitoes

Questions about paraquito

What is paraquito the archaic form of?
Paraquito is the archaic form of parakeet.

Words near paraquito in the dictionary

  1. paraquels
  2. paraquet
  3. paraquets
  4. paraquinone
  5. paraquinones
  6. paraquito
  7. paraquitoes
  8. paraquitos
  9. pararabin
  10. pararammelsbergite
  11. Pararctalia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paraquito (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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