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Parrot

Definition: Parrot

Parrot

Noun

1. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds.

2. A copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated.

Verb

1. Repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "parrot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Parrot

DomainDefinition

19th Century Satire

An individual who can never be held responsible for what he says. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

Parrots chattering in your dreams, signifies frivolous employments and idle gossip among your friends.
To see them in repose, denotes a peaceful intermission of family broils.
For a young woman to dream that she owns a parrot, denotes that her lover will believe her to be quarrelsome.
To teach a parrot, you will have trouble in your private affairs.
A dead parrot, foretells the loss of social friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Multilingual Slang

Telugu (chiluka). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Parrot

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A Parrot can be:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parrot."

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Parrot (family)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Parrots
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Genera
Agapornis
Alisterus
Amazona, amazon
Anodorhynchus, macaw
Aprosmictus
Ara, macaw
Aratinga
Barnardius
Bolbopsittacus
Bolborhynchus
Brotogeris
Callocephalon
Chalcopsitta
Charmosyna
Conuropsis
Coracopsis
Cyanoliseus
Cyanopsitta, macaw
Cyanoramphus
Cyclopsitta
Deroptyus
Eclectus
Enicognathus
Eos
Eunymphicus
Forpus
Geoffroyus
Geopsittacus
Glossopsitta
Graydidascalus
Gypopsitta
Hapalopsittaca
Lathamus
Leptosittaca
Loriculus
Lorius
Mascarinus
Melopsittacus, Budgerigar
Micropsitta
Myiopsitta, Monk Parakeet
Nandayus
Nannopsittaca
Neophema
Neopsephotus
Neopsittacus
Nestor, kea, kaka
Northiella
Ognorhynchus
Opopsitta
Oreopsittacus
Pezoporus
Phigys
Pionites
Pionopsitta
Pionus
Platycercus
Poicephalus
Polytelis
Prioniturus
Prosopeia
Psephotus
Pseudeos
Psittacella
Psittacula
Psittaculirostris
Psittacus, African Grey Parrot
Psitteuteles
Psittinus
Psittrichas
Purpureicephalus
Pyrrhura
Rhynchopsitta
Strigops
Tanygnathus
Touit
Trichoglossus
Triclaria
Vini

A parrot is any of the many birds belonging to the family Psittacidae. They have a characteristic curved beak shape and generally an erect stance. All parrots are zygodactyl, having the four toes on each foot placed two at the front and two back.

Most species can imitate human speech or other sounds, and at least one researcher, Irene Pepperberg has made controversial claims for the learning ability of one species; an African Grey Parrot Alex, has been trained to use words to identify objects. Many other scholars claim that parrots are only repeating words with no idea of their meanings and point to Pepperberg's results as being nothing but an expression of operant conditioning. However, there remains little doubt that parrots are quite intelligent.

Other kinds of parrot are the several species of macaw, the cockatoos and the Kea.

Birds of the parrot family can be found in most of the warmer parts of the world, including India, South East Asia and West Africa, with one species, now extinct, in the United States (the Carolina Parakeet). By far the greatest number of parrot species, however, come from Australasia, South America and Central America.

Along with the cockatoo family (the Cacatuidae), the parrot family makes up the order Psittaciformes. Confusingly, the term parrot can be used in either the broad or the narrow sense. See Parrot (order).

Species list

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Parrot (order)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Parrots
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Families
Psittacidae
Cacatuidae

Parrots (Order Psittaciformes) are a type of bird (342 species) that have a characteristic curved beak shape and generally an erect stance. Several of them can imitate speech, and at least one, Irene Pepperberg's African Grey Parrot Alex, can use words meaningfully. Other kinds of parrot are the macaw, characterized by lines around the eyes, and the kea.

The Psittaciformes are made up of two Families, the Cacatuidae or cockatoos, and the Psittacidae, the parrots. The term parrot can be used to indicate either the Psittacidae alone or the entire order. Some authorities do not list the cockatoos as a separate family, the majority view, however, is that the Cacatuidae are quite distinct, having a movable headcrest, different arrangement of the carotid arteries, a gall bladder, different skull bones, and not having the Dyck texture feather composition which, in the Psittacidae, scatters light in such a way as to produce the vibrant colours of so many parrots.

Birds of the parrot families can be found in most of the warmer parts of the world, including India, South East Asia and West Africa, with one species, now extinct, in the United States (the Carolina Parakeet). By far the greatest number of Psittaciforme species, however, come from Australasia, South America and Central America.

Many parrot species have become endangered due to habitat loss. Since many are also kept as companion animals, this necessitates that parrot owners are cognizant of the origin of their pets to avoid unwarily trafficking in the illegal trade of wild birds. Also, this means that owners of the most endangered parrots should consider entering their birds in breeding programs.

Origins

In general, an area which has, relative to other areas, a great concentration of different species within a particular family is likely to be the original ancestral home of that family. The diversity of Psittaciformes in South America and Australasia suggests that the order has a Gondwanian origin. The parrot family's fossil record, however, is sparse and their origin remains a matter of informed speculation rather than fact.

The earliest known record of parrot-like birds dates to the late Cretaceous about 70 million years ago. A single 15 mm fragment from a lower bill found in Wyoming is similar to that of a modern lorikeet. It is not clear if this find should be classified as a parrot or not.

Europe is the site of more extensive records from the Eocene (58 to 36 million years ago). Several fairly complete skeletons of parrot-like birds have been found in England and Germany. Some uncertainty remains, but on the whole it seems more likely that these are not true ancestors of the modern parrots, but are a related group which evolved in the Northern Hemisphere but have since died out.

The Southern Hemisphere does not have nearly as rich a fossil record for the period of interest as the Northern, and contains no known parrot-like remains earlier than the early to middle Miocene, around 20 million year ago. At this point, however, is found the first unambiguous parrot fossil (as opposed to a parrot-like one), an upper jaw which is indistinguishable from that of a modern white cockatoo .

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parrot (order)."

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Parrot virtual machine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Parrot is a register based virtual machine being developed by the Perl community. It will be the target for the Perl 6 interpreter. Most other virtual machines like the Java virtual machine are stack based. The developers see it as an advantage of the Parrot machine that it more closely ressembles an actual hardware design and that the vast literature on compiler optimization can be used generating code for the Parrot virtual machine.

The project actually started as an April Fool's joke in which a hypothetical language named Parrot was announced that would unify Python and Perl. Later, the name was adopted be this project whose intent is to do just that. Several tiny languages are developed along with it which target the parrot virtual machine.

The Parrot virtual machine uses Parrot assembly language.

Examples

Arithmetic operation:
set I1, 10
inc I1        # I1 is now 11
inc I1, 2     # I1 is now 13
set N1, 42.0
dec N1        # N1 is now 41.0
dec N1, 2.0   # N1 is now 39.0
print I1
print ", "
print N1
print "\\
"
end

External link

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Synonyms within Context: Parrot

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imitation

Imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.

Loquacity

Talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; Verb: rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite; gossip; (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles.

Memory

Get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Parrot

English words defined with "parrot": Adunque, African gray, Anthropoglot ♦ Cagit, cockateel, cockatiel, cockatoo, cockatoo parrot ♦ Green-leek ♦ Jako ♦ Kaka, Kakapo, kea ♦ lovebird ♦ macaw ♦ Nestor notabilis, Nymphicus hollandicus ♦ poll, poll parrot, Polly, popinjay, Psittacus erithacus ♦ Scaroid, Scarus ♦ Vaza parrot ♦ Warrin ♦ Zebra parrakeet, Zygodactylous. (references)
Specialty definitions using "parrot": BONHEUR ♦ exception ♦ More the Merrier ♦ Old Dogs will not Learn New Tricks ♦ parrots, POLYGLOT ♦ slang, S-Lang ♦ yellow fluorescent protein, yellow-crowned Amazon. (references)
Etymologies containing "parrot": Psitta-co-fulvine. (references)

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Modern Usage: Parrot

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hercules Parrot, sir (Evil Under the Sun; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

If I can teach a parrot to sing 'God Save The Queen', then I can teach this savage a thing or two. (Tarzan; writing credit: Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tab Murphy)

Why is it the only food we have in this house is parrot food (The Love Bug; writing credit: Gordon Buford; Don DaGradi)

This parrot is no more (And Now For Something Completely Different; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin)

And, the gizard of a pig, the fingers of a young monkey, the beak of a parrot and three spoonfuls of sugar, and then, let the moon do the rest (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick)

Lyrics

On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green)

She's perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder (Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First); performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp and George Green)

Parrot on my arm, (Dark and Metric; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

Clever

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Precious is the parrot who is trained by a clean tongue. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Blue Parrot (1953)

Mickey's Parrot (1938)

The Chinese Parrot (1927)

Musical Parrot (1926)

The Pet Parrot (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Parrot

DomainTitle

Books

  • Companion Parrot Handbook (reference)

  • Guide to Companion Parrot Behavior (reference)

  • The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot (reference)

  • The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Audubon's Animal Adventures: Parrot (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Parrot

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Photo Album: Parrot

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[Soldier posing by parrot gun]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's officers and crewmen pose on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, August 1864. Commander Alexander C. Rhind, ship's Commanding Officer, is at the extreme right with his foot on the ladder. Standing next to him is Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock. Lieutenant George Dewey is in the right center, wearing a straw hat, directly below the end of the davit. The pivot gun is one of the ship's two 100-pounder Parrot rifles. Note Marine in the left foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Ship's Gunner and Gunner's Mates, 1903. Note the kitten and parrot mascots, and the comment written on the First Class Gunner's Mate at right. Credit: NAVY.

Firemen rushing to burning building, fireman with parrot in cage, man reading "Banner" newspaper, charred ruins with chimney. Credit: Library of Congress.

Couple walking in Utopia while main declaims, parrot on perch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Winsome Washington woman has rare parrot for pet / Underwood & Underwood, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Green Parrot Tea Room and gift shop, Naples, Maine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Girl with a parrot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lady sitting on chair next to parrot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dorothy Tierney, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, with her parrot on her shoulder. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Parrot
 

"Parrot" by Maximo Rodriguez
Commentary: "My parrot "Maluca"."		"Parrot" by Carlos Gustavo Curado
Commentary: "Green parrot."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Parrot".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Parrot crying.Parrot saying "pretty bird".
Parrot mimicking a cat's meow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Parrot

AuthorQuotation

Billy Graham

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Parrot

TitleAuthorQuote

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

It was the Parrot, you know

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

When under the elephant he raised a grotesque call, which belongs to no human language and which a parrot alone could reproduce

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Parrot

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (Pignoramus intolerabilis) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Parrot

"Parrot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.83% of the time. "Parrot" is used about 355 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)91.83%32615,930
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.82%10111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)2.82%10111,207
Noun (proper)2.54%9117,287
                    Total100.00%355N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Parrot

The following table summarizes the usage of "parrot" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
ParrotLast name20035,045
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Parrot

Expressions using "parrot": brown parrot ♦ canary parrot ♦ Carolina parrot ♦ cockatoo parrot ♦ gray parrot ♦ mountain parrot ♦ night parrot ♦ owl parrot ♦ parrot coal ♦ parrot cry ♦ parrot disease ♦ parrot fashion ♦ parrot fever ♦ parrot fish ♦ parrot green ♦ parrot weed ♦ parrot wrasse ♦ pheasant parrot ♦ poll parrot ♦ pygmy parrot ♦ repeat as a parrot ♦ ring parrot ♦ scallop parrot ♦ sea parrot ♦ shell parrot ♦ talking parrot ♦ undulated parrot ♦ vasa parrot ♦ Vaza parrot. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "parrot": parrot-cage, parrot-crested, parrot-fashion, parrot-hoot, parrot-in-the-chimney, parrot-like, parrot-napped, parrot-sickness, parrot-speak, parrot-type.

Ending with "parrot": sea-parrot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Parrot

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

parrot

5,546

macaw parrot

59

quaker parrot

604

parrot rescue

51

african grey parrot

395

parrot head

49

parrot cage

299

parrot supply

48

amazon parrot

263

blue parrot

46

parrot picture

232

bird and parrot

45

senegal parrot

223

pickled parrot

42

parrot fish

206

parrot photo

42

parrot jungle

202

talking parrot

42

parrot for sale

161

indian ringneck parrot

41

parrot toy

148

ice parrot

41

eclectus parrot

137

ringneck parrot

41

parrot cay

109

green parrot

40

parrot food

96

conure parrot

40

african gray parrot

91

parrot type

39

aladdin parrot

80

blood fish parrot

39

meyers parrot

73

quacker parrot

39

african grey parrot sale

72

blood parrot

38

parrot clip art

65

alpine kea parrot

38

parrot breeders

65

bay parrot

38

cartoon parrot

38
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Parrot

Language Translations for "parrot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

papegaai. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

papagall (popinjay). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, echo, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), ‏شخص يردد أقوال غيره, ‏ببغائي, ‏ببغاء (poll). (various references)

   

Basque

  

loro. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уча като папагал, повтарям като папагал, папагалски (parrot fashion, parrot-like), папагал (copy-cat, poll, popinjay). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

鹦鹉, 鵡 , 鸚鵡 , 鸚 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

papoušek (lorikeet). (various references)

   

Danish

  

papegøje. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

papegaai. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

papagumi, papago. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

pappageykur. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هدف (Aim, Butt, Cause, Goal, Mark, Object, Point, Prick, Purpose, Scope, Sight, Target, Victim), طوطی وارگفتن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

papukaija. (various references)

   

French

  

perroquet. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

pappegaai. (various references)

   

German

  

Papagei. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παπαγάλοσ (poll, popinjay), παπαγάλος (cleaver wrasse, peacock blenny), ψιττακόσ. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

papagall. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תוכי (inner, interim, internal, intestine, intrinsic, intrinsical, popinjay). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

papagáj (lory). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

páfagaukur. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

membeo (imitate), membebek (imitate, quack), keajukan (imitate, mimic, mock@), burung beo. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pappagallo (urinal, urine-bottle). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鸚鵡 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おうむ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

앵무새. (various references)

   

Lombard

  

loret. (various references)

   

Manx

  

parrad (popinjay), eean y chiaulteyr. (various references)

   

Maori

  

kaakaa. (various references)

   

Maya

  

thuuth. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

tekahstya'ks. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

papagai. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

papagai. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrotpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

papagaio (popinjay), papaguear. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

papagal (parakeet, popinjay), repeta papagaliceşte, repeta ca un papagal. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

попугай (popinjay). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

lepapagai. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ponavljati bez razumevanja, papiga, papagaj (popinjay). (various references)

   

Shona

  

chihwenga. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

loro. (various references)

   

Sranan

  

popokay. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

papegoja (popinjay). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผิดหวังมาก ((as) sick as a parrot). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

papağan gibi tekrar etmek, papağan (Polly, popinjay). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

toty. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

повторювати як папуга, папуга (popinjay). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chim hải âu rụt cổ (sea parrot). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

t'uut'. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Parrot

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Amazona imperialis, Loxia pytyopsittacus, Pezoporus wallicus, Pionopsitta pileata, Poicephalus robustus, Polytelis alexandrae, Psephotus dissimilis, Psephotus pulcherrimus, psittaca, Psittacidae, Psittaciformes, Scarus cretensis, Sparisoma cretense, Strigops habroptilus. (various references)

Persian800-Modern

babgha. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Parrot

Derivations

Words beginning with "parrot": parroted, parroter, parroters, parroting, parrots, parroty. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Parrot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arrot, barrot, Darroch, garrott, Pairoj, Paproth, parat, Pargo, Parit, Parlt, paro, parod, paror, parot, Parotta, Parouty, parra, Parral, parritch, Parrotia, parrow, Parroy, parryt, parto, Parvo, Perret, perriot, Perro, perron, perrot, pharro, Pieroth, Pirot, Pirro, Porrit, Porro, Prakrit, prott, prrrit, Pyrrho, raprot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Parrot"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "parrot" (pronounced pe"rut)
4-e" r u tberet, carat, demerit, ferret, garret, inherit, karat, merit.
3-r u tcarrot, culprit, curate, desperate, elaborate, interpret, invertebrate, noncorporate, pirate, portrait, reinterpret, secret, spirit, supersecret, temperate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Parrot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: raptor.

Words within the letters "a-o-p-r-r-t"

-1 letter: aport.

-2 letters: atop, orra, parr, part, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, rato, roar, rota, taro, tarp, tora, torr, trap, trop.

-3 letters: apt, art, oar, oat, opt, ora, ort, par, pat, pot, pro, rap, rat, rot, tao, tap, tar, top, tor.

-4 letters: ar, at, op, or, pa, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-o-p-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: airport, carport, parrots, parroty, portray, praetor, prorate, rapport, raptors.

 

+2 letters: airports, carports, forepart, operator, parroket, parroted, parroter, perorate, portrait, portrays, praetors, predator, priorate, pronator, prorated, prorates, protract, rapports, teardrop, trapdoor, traprock.

 

+3 letters: apparitor, apriority, arthropod, aspirator, carrottop, cartopper, copartner, corporate, foreparts, imperator, operators, paratroop, parrokets, parroters, parroting, patroller, perborate, perforate, perorated, perorates, porterage, portraits, portrayal, portrayed, portrayer, precatory, predators, predatory, prefatory, preformat, pretorian, priorates, probatory, procreant, procreate, pronators, prorating, proration, prorogate, prosateur, prostrate, prothorax, protostar, protracts, pterosaur, purgatory, raptorial, rapturous, reoperate, reportage, reprobate, retropack, separator, spearwort, teardrops, temporary, transport, trapdoors, traprocks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Sounds 		9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency 		13. Names: Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern 		17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams 		21. Bibliography


  

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