Crossword clues for lorikeet
lorikeet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lorikeet \Lor"i*keet\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various small, brightly coloured, parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily ''Loriinae''.
WordNet
n. any of various small lories
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "lorikeet".
A lorikeet, or what he took for a lorikeet, flying from a clump of banksia changed its current for a moment.
They are great for honeyeaters and lorikeets, and many of them give the garden a beautiful Australian flavour.
Among the foreign shapes and foliage, brightly colored kingfishers and lorikeets fled into shadows, as though something terrorized them.
Brilliantly colored parrots, lorikeets and kingfishers flitted continually from branch to branch, so that the foliage appeared to be alive with movement.
A flock of colourful lorikeets descended on the trees and noisily began feasting on the nectar-filled flowers.
Lorikeets and honeyeaters will enjoy a nectar mix of 1 part sugar, 3 parts high protein baby cereal, 10 parts water and bird vitamins according to directions.
Once inside the mesh there was a cable car that dropped on looping wires to the settlement, but Zo usually went instead to the gatehouse and got her birdsuit out of its locker, and slipped into it and zipped up, and ran off a flier’s platform and spread her wings, and flew in lazy spirals down to the north rim town, to dinner on one of the dining terraces, watching parrots and cockatiels and lorikeets dart about trying to scavenge a meal.
Once inside the mesh there was a cable car that dropped on looping wires to the settlement, but Zo usually went instead to the gatehouse and got her birdsuit out of its locker, and slipped into it and zipped up, and ran off a flier's platform and spread her wings, and flew in lazy spirals down to the north rim town, to dinner on one of the dining terraces, watching parrots and cockatiels and lorikeets dart about trying to scavenge a meal.
And, landing often, he practiced his archery on lorikeets and lyrebirds and boobies, or stalked the golden cockatoos with his blowgun.