Crossword clues for budgerigar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, shell parakeet. [WordNet 1.5] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, from Native Australian, said to mean "good cockatoo," from budgeri "good" + gar "cockatoo."
Wiktionary
n. A species of small parakeet native to Australia and often kept as pets, ''Melopsittacus undulatus''.
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]
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, and are found wild throughout the drier parts of Australia where the species has survived harsh inland conditions for the last five million years. Budgerigars are naturally green and yellow with black, scalloped markings on the nape, back, and wings, but have been bred in captivity with colouring in blues, whites, yellows, greys, and even with small crests. Budgerigars are popular pets around the world due to their small size, low cost, and ability to mimic human speech. The origin of the budgerigar's name is unclear. The species was first recorded in 1805, and today is the third most popular pet in the world, after the domesticated dog and cat.
The budgerigar is closely related to the lories and the fig parrots. They are one of the parakeet species, a non-taxonomical term that refers to any of a number of small parrots with long, flat and tapered tails. In both captivity and the wild, budgerigars breed opportunistically and in pairs.
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.
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.