Word.ws English Dictionary

psittacine

psittacine adjective: of or pertaining to parrots.

Adjective

psittacine (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to parrots.

Noun

psittacine (plural psittacines)

  1. Any bird in the order Psittaciformes: a parrot.
    Synonyms:
    parrot

psittacine meaning in Tamil

psittacine in Tamil

கிளிகளுக்குரிய, கிளிபோன்ற

Synonyms of psittacine

Forms of psittacine

pluralpsittacines

Origin of psittacine

From Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós) + -ine. By surface analysis, psittac- + -ine.

Questions about psittacine

What does psittacine mean?
Psittacine means of or pertaining to parrots.
What is psittacine in Tamil?
Psittacine in Tamil is கிளிகளுக்குரிய, கிளிபோன்ற. See Psittacine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is psittacine?
Psittacine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near psittacine in the dictionary

  1. psittac-
  2. psittaceous
  3. psittacid
  4. psittacids
  5. psittaciform
  6. psittacine
  7. psittacines
  8. psittacinite
  9. psittacism
  10. psittacisms
  11. psittacistic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: psittacine (page history and authors); psittacine (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “psittacine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/psittacine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.