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"PARROTS" is a plural of: parrot. |
Date "PARROTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Family of zygodactyl birds comprising the parrot. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An order of zygodactyl birds comprising the parrots and related forms. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Parrot can be:
- Any of about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittaciformes, the biological order which includes both the Psittacidae (or 'parrots'—see below) and the Cacatuidae (or cockatoos). See parrot (order).
- Any bird of the Psittacidae, or parrot family, which includes the parrots, conures, lorikeets, parakeets, and others. See parrot (family).
- The Parrot virtual machine, an interpreter currently being developed for version 6 of the Perl programming language.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parrot."
(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)."
Crosswords: PARROTS |
| English words defined with "PARROTS": amazon ♦ Grass parrakeet ♦ lory, Love bird ♦ macaw ♦ order Psittaciformes ♦ parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet, Psittaci, Psittacid, Psittaciformes, Psitta-co-fulvine, Pygmy parrot ♦ Vaza parrot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PARROTS": guided experience ♦ Parrot. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm crossing parrots with carrier pigeons (Born to Dance; writing credit: Buddy G. DeSylva; Jack McGowan) Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men (Time Bandits; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Michael Palin) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Gloucester in front of Farenholts house. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pan American Union Building. Parrots in court of Pan American Union Building with people. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Parrots story 2" by Olivier Borgognon Commentary: "Various parrots in trees." | "Parrots" by Erik Hutters Commentary: "Parrots in Palmito Park." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Parrots calling. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The incubation period is 6 to 19 days. Although all birds are susceptible, pet birds (parrots, parakeets, macaws, and cockatiels) and poultry (turkeys and ducks) are most frequently involved in transmission to humans. (references) | |
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| "PARROTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 94.55% of the time. "PARROTS" is used about 110 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 94.55% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.64% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.82% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PARROTS": birds-parrots, poll-parrots. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
macaw parrots.com | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PARROTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | papegoejer. (various references) | |
Dutch | papegaaien, papegaaiachtigen. (various references) | |
French | psittasidés, psittaciformes, psittacidés, perruches, perroquets. (various references) | |
German | Papageien. (various references) | |
Greek | παπαγάλοι, ψιττακοειδή, ψιττακοί. (various references) | |
Italian | psittaciformi, psittacidi, pappagalli. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrotspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | psitaciformes, psitacídeos, periquitos (love birds), papagaios. (various references) | |
Spanish | papagayos. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Psittacidae, Psittaciformes. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"PARROTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paproth, parets, Parois, parot, Parotta, parritch, partos, perrot, perrots, pibrochs, Pierrots, protz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PARROTS" (pronounced pe"ruts) |
| 5 | -e" r u t s | berets, carats, demerits, ferrets, garrets, inherits, merits. |
| 4 | -r u t s | carrots, culprits, interprets, invertebrates, pirates, portraits, secrets, spirits. |
| 3 | -u t s | advocates, affidavits, affiliates, affricates, agates, aggregates, amulets, animates, anklets, approximates, articulates, associates, audits, Babbitts, ballots, bandits, banquets, barbiturates, baronets, baskets, bigots, billets, biscuits, blankets, bluebonnets, booklets, bracelets, brackets, branchlets, buckets, budgets, buffets, bullets, cabinets, carpets, caskets, certificates, chariots, chestnuts, cheviots, chocolates, ciliates, circuits, climates, closets, comets, compatriots, composites, conduits, conglomerates, consulates, coordinates, correlates, covets, credits, crickets, deficits, degenerates, deposits, diets, digits, discredits, dockets, doctorates, droplets, edits, electorates, electromagnets, elicits, Emirates, ergots, estimates, exhibits, exits, eyelets, facets, faucets, favorites, fillets, frigates, gadgets, gaskets, graduates, guesstimates, habits, hamlets, hatchets, helmets, helots, hermits, hornets, hypermarkets, idiots, illiterates, inaugurates, ingots, inhabits, inhibits, initiates, intermediates, intimates, islets, jackets, jesuits, junkets, laminates, lancets, laureates, leaflets, legates, limits, limpets, maggots, magnets, markets, microcircuits, microclimates, midgets, millets, minutes, moderates, nonprofits, nuggets, nutlets, omelets, opiates, opposites, orbits, packets, palates, pallets, pamphlets, particulates, patriots, peanuts, pellets, perquisites, pickets, pickpockets, piglets, pilots, planets, platelets, plaudits, plummets, pockets, poets, posits, prelates, prerequisites, privates, profits, prohibits, prophets, puppets, quiets, quintuplets, rackets, racquets, requisites, revisits, rickets, riots, rivets, rockets, russets, sextuplets, silicates, snippets, sockets, solicits, spigots, starlets, summits, supermarkets, surrogates, tablets, targets, tenets, thickets, tickets, toilets, trinkets, triplets, trumpets, turrets, underestimates, undergraduates, unfortunates, units, violets, visits, wallets, wastebaskets, whats, wickets, widgets, zealots. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: raptors. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: parrot, pastor, raptor, rostra, sartor. | |
-2 letters: aport, parrs, parts, ports, praos, prats, proas, prost, ratos, roars, roast, rotas, sapor, sport, sprat, strap, strop, taros, tarps, toras, traps. | |
-3 letters: arts, atop, oars, oast, oats, opts, orra, orts, osar, parr, pars, part, past, pats, port, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, pros, raps, rapt, rasp, rato. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airports, carports, portrays, praetors, prorates, rapports. | |
+2 letters: aspirator, foreparts, operators, parrokets, parroters, perorates, portraits, predators, priorates, pronators, prosateur, prostrate, protostar, protracts, pterosaur, rapturous, separator, spearwort, teardrops, transport, trapdoors, traprocks. | |
+3 letters: apparitors, arthropods, aspirators, carrottops, cartoppers, copartners, imperators, inspirator, paratroops, patrollers, perborates, perforates, permafrost, personator, porterages, portrayals, portrayers, postarrest, preformats, prestorage, pretorians, procreates, pronatores, prorations, prorogates, prosateurs, prostrated, prostrates, protostars, pterosaurs, reoperates, reportages, reprobates, respirator, retropacks, scriptoria, separators, spearworts, sportswear, tetraspore, transpolar, transports. | |
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