Parrot

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parrot \Par"rot\ (p[a^]r"r[u^]t), n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim.
     of Pierre Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow.
     Cf. {Paroquet}, {Petrel}, {Petrify}.]
     1. (Zool.) In a general sense, any bird of the order
        {Psittaci}.
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     2. (Zool.) Any species of {Psittacus}, {Chrysotis}, {Pionus},
        and other genera of the family {Psittacid[ae]}, as
        distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories.
        They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked
        space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako ({Psittacus
        erithacus}) of Africa (see {Jako}), and the species of
        Amazon, or green, parrots ({Chrysotis}) of America, are
        examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to
        imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
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     {Carolina parrot} (Zool.), the Carolina parrakeet. See
        {Parrakeet}.
  
     {Night parrot}, or {Owl parrot}. (Zool.) See {Kakapo}.
  
     {Parrot coal}, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling
        and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.]
        
  
     {Parrot green}. (Chem.) See {Scheele's green}, under {Green},
        n.
  
     {Parrot weed} (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant ({Bocconia
        frutescens}) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer
        parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid
        leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.
  
     {Parrot wrasse}, {Parrot fish} (Zool.), any fish of the genus
        {Scarus}. One species ({Scarus Cretensis}), found in the
        Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly
        prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parrot \Par"rot\, v. t.
     To repeat by rote, without understanding, as a parrot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parrot \Par"rot\, v. i.
     To chatter like a parrot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parrot
       n 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
       v : repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's
           words"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "parrot":
     Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, ape,
     bourgeois, burgher, come again, commit to memory,
     compulsive character, con, conformer, conformist, conventionalist,
     copier, copy, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler,
     dissimulator, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double,
     duplicate, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, formalist,
     get by heart, get letter-perfect, have by heart, hit off,
     hit off on, hypocrite, imitate, imitator, impersonate,
     impersonator, impostor, know by heart, learn by heart,
     learn verbatim, memorize, methodologist, middle-class type, mime,
     mimer, mimic, mimicker, mock, mocker, mockingbird, model child,
     monkey, organization man, pedant, perfectionist, phony, plagiarist,
     plagiarize, plastic person, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot,
     poseur, precisian, precisianist, quote, recite, redo, redouble,
     reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate, reiterate, renew,
     repeat, repeat by heart, reproduce, revive, say again, sheep,
     simulator, square, study, swot up, take off, take off on,
     teenybopper, trimmer, yes-man