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parrotlings

parrotlings is the plural of parrotling.

Meaning of parrotling

Noun

parrotling (plural parrotlings)

  1. (rare) A small or immature parrot
    • I can fancy myself there now, the sun and the sweetness of the orange blossom bewildering in their purity, the green parrotlings in a nest behind a carven god simmering away contentedly like half a dozen kettles until with an express train shriek a red and green parent whizzed past me bearing a...1903 April 11, F[lora] A[nnie] Steel, “The Beasts That Perish”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 95, number 2,476, London, page 449, column 1

Questions about parrotlings

What is parrotlings the plural of?
Parrotlings is the plural of parrotling.

Words near parrotlings in the dictionary

  1. parrotless
  2. parrotlet
  3. parrotlets
  4. parrotlike
  5. parrotling
  6. parrotlings
  7. parrotries
  8. parrotry
  9. parrots
  10. Parrott
  11. Parrott rifle

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