parakeet
Meaning of parakeet
noun
a small parrot with predominantly green plumage and a long tail.
mid 16th century: from Old French paroquet, Italian parrocchetto, and Spanish periquito ; origin uncertain, perhaps (via Italian) based on a diminutive meaning ‘little wig’, referring to head plumage, or (via Spanish) based on a diminutive of the given name Pedro .
Information about parakeet
- It is a name.
- The plural form of parakeet is: parakeets.
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Hyphenation of parakeet
para-keet
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- parakeet is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
parakeet synonyms
Meaning parrakeet:
parrakeet, parroket, paraquet, paroquet, parroquet
Translation of parakeet
- German: Sittich
- French: perruche
- Portuguese: periquito
- Spanish: periquito
- Italian: pappagallino
Words that rhyme with parakeet
keet, parrakeet, lorikeet, skeet
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