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parroquet

parroquet is the archaic spelling 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 parroquet

pluralparroquets

Words formed from parroquet

Questions about parroquet

What is parroquet the archaic spelling of?
Parroquet is the archaic spelling of parakeet.

Words near parroquet in the dictionary

  1. parrodiene
  2. parrodienes
  3. parroket
  4. parrokets
  5. Parrondo's paradox
  6. parroquet
  7. parroquets
  8. parrot
  9. parrot and monkey time
  10. Parrot Cay
  11. parrot coal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parroquet (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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