psittacus erithacus

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psittacus erithacus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.]
     [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw,
     OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
     [Written also grey.]
     1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; white
        mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of
        ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed
        color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
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              These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
              mixing whites and blacks.             --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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     2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
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     3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames.
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     4. gloomy; dismal.
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     Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
  
     Gray buck (Zool.), the chickara.
  
     Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
  
     Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
  
     Gray duck (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female
        mallard.
  
     Gray falcon (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
  
     Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
  
     Gray hen (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black
        grouse. See Heath grouse.
  
     Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants
        of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
  
     Gray mullet (Zool.) any one of the numerous species of the
        genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in the
        Old World and America; as the European species
        (Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the
        American striped mullet (Mugilid[ae] albula), and the
        white or silver mullet (Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See
        Mullet.
  
     Gray owl (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium  aluco
        ). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits
        arctic America.
  
     Gray parrot (Zool.), an African parrot (Psittacus  erithacus
        ), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
        aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
  
     Gray pike. (Zool.) See Sauger.
  
     Gray snapper (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See
        Snapper.
  
     Gray snipe (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
  
     Gray whale (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the
        northern Pacific (Eschrichtius robustus, formerly
        Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal
        fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet).
        It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of
        California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback,
        devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years
        and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
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  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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  Jako \Jak"o\ (j[a^]k"[-o]), n. (Zool.)
     An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept
     as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.
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psittacus erithacus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Psittacus erithacus
      n 1: commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail
           and white face; native to equatorial Africa [syn: African grey
           , African gray, Psittacus erithacus]