Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

Usage examples of parrakeet.

The three parrakeets inside spooked, plastering themselves against the sides in mad retreat.

He glanced at the red parrakeet, who was on top of the cage again, searching for some way to enter.

The cere, above the vertical parrakeet bill, was blue, the signal for the male of the species, and this was the only deviation.

While Humbert's elaborate spaceship model grew, Red learned every facet of parrakeet existence as locally practiced.

He read up on parrakeet nesting procedures, for they had never bred their birds before, and bought a suitable enclosed box.

He knew the symptoms too well, and knew that parrakeets, along with men, were subject to such things.

Something like a parrakeet, free to enter certain homes without being challenged or held.

The Parrakeet, laden with irreplaceable equipment, pierced the western gloom, her engine blasts visible, if not audible, as she drove northwest and out of danger.

A gaudy parrakeet with a nest near by screamed at him suddenly, and he didn’t even look up.

Sin, wondering with a delightful vagueness why they seemed constantly to change color, proved to be a pair of brilliantly plumaged parrakeets perched upon a lofty branch of the palm.

But, of course, she had lain watching the parrakeets for several hours, and now night had fallen.

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

In the stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns.