parakeets
Meaning of parakeets
plural 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 parakeets
- It is a name.
- The singular form of parakeets is: parakeet.
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Hyphenation of parakeets
para-keets
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- parakeets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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