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perroquet

perroquet is the obsolete 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 perroquet

pluralperroquets

Phrases with perroquet

Questions about perroquet

What is perroquet the obsolete spelling of?
Perroquet is the obsolete spelling of parakeet.

Words near perroquet in the dictionary

  1. Perrodins
  2. perron
  3. Perron's formula
  4. Perrone
  5. perrons
  6. perroquet
  7. perroquet auk
  8. perroquet auks
  9. perroquets
  10. Perros
  11. Perros-Guirec

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perroquet (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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