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budgerigar

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A niece of Miss Vine's bought her a new budgerigar . ▪ A pet budgerigar , lost half-a-mile from its home, was returned to its owner. ▪ She must get a cat or a budgerigar , or even a goldfish. ▪ She opened the gate of Number 10, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The budgerigar ( Melopsittacus undulatus ) , also known as common pet parakeet or shell parakeet and informally nicknamed the budgie , is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot . Budgerigars are the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus , ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, from Native Australian, said to mean "good cockatoo," from budgeri "good" + gar "cockatoo."

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
budgerigar \budg"er*i*gar\, budgereegah \budgereegah\, budgerygah \budgerygah\n. small Australian parakeet ( Melopsittacus undulatus ) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors. Syn: budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors [syn: budgereegah , budgerygah , budgie , grass parakeet , lovebird , shell parakeet , Melopsittacus undulatus ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A species of small parakeet native to Australia and often kept as pets, ''Melopsittacus undulatus''.

Usage examples of budgerigar.

At this moment their budgerigar broke out of his cage, whizzed across the room and settled on my shoulder.

I could breed budgerigars, but I'm not sufficiently interested in budgerigars.

Purbright was standing by the window with his back to the fumigated budgerigar when Mrs Sayers bustled in with a photograph.

I was fond of her, and it was through her that we learned of my father's greatest excesses, whose victims were a budgerigar and a mongrel dog.

Now while digital cats and telephones were a lot of fun they weren't quite as popular as the real thing, as a result the aliens were quietly sneaking around Earth nabbing the occasional budgerigar and telephone booth and shipping them back to their planet.

They continued on down the corridor to pass through into the actual mine itself with its stone walls and hundreds of yellow and green budgerigars which flitted around their heads singing incessantly.

And Miss Agatha Sheldon-Smythe who was bordering on retirement and needed a home for herself and her two pet budgerigars.

There was a light in Miss Sheldon-Smythe's window, she was probably talking to her budgerigars, and that was the only light in the building.

He had had a pet ferret once, he had told her, and he had liked it as much as she liked her budgerigars.

In the trees the budgerigars woke up and, the simple message by now having had time to work its way into their brain cells, shrieked, 'Who's a pri'y boy, den?

Air roared up the side of the tower, carrying dust, wind, heat and budgerigars.

If they had reached water-skiing budgerigars, there would be nothing else worth hearing.

And his reward was to be stuck in Little Whinging for four solid weeks, completely cut off from the magical world, reduced to squatting among dying begonias so that he could hear about water-skiing budgerigars!

As they dropped down towards Port Jackson the number and variety of parrots, and their discordant noise, increased: cockatoos in flocks, cockateels, lories, and clouds of budgerigars.