Parakeet Definition

părə-kēt
parakeets
noun
parakeets
Any of various small, slender parrots with a long, tapering tail.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
parakeet
Plural:
parakeets

Origin of Parakeet

  • From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish periquito probably diminutive of Perico diminutive of Pedro Peter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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