'Parrot' definitions:
Definition of 'parrot'
From: WordNet
noun
Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
noun
A copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
verb
Repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's words"
Definition of 'Parrot'
From: GCIDE
- Parrot \Par"rot\, v. t. To repeat by rote, without understanding, as a parrot. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Parrot'
From: GCIDE
- Parrot \Par"rot\ (p[a^]r"r[u^]t), n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim. of Pierre Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow. Cf. Paroquet, Petrel, Petrify.]
- 1. (Zool.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacid[ae], as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako ({Psittacus erithacus}) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. [1913 Webster]
- Carolina parrot (Zool.), the Carolina parrakeet. See Parrakeet.
- Night parrot, or Owl parrot. (Zool.) See Kakapo.
- Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.]
- Parrot green. (Chem.) See Scheele's green, under Green, n.
- Parrot weed (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant ({Bocconia frutescens}) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.
- Parrot wrasse, Parrot fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Scarus. One species (Scarus Cretensis), found in the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Parrot'
From: GCIDE
- Parrot \Par"rot\, v. i. To chatter like a parrot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'parrot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anal character,
- ape,
- Babbitt,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- come again,
- commit to memory,
- compulsive character,
- con,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- copier,
- copy,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- ditto,
- do a repeat,
- do again,
- do over,
- double,
- duplicate,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- faker,
- forger,
- formalist,
- get by heart,
- get letter-perfect,
- have by heart,
- hit off,
- hit off on,
- hypocrite,
- imitate,
- imitator,
- impersonate,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- know by heart,
- learn by heart,
- learn verbatim,
- memorize,
- methodologist,
- Middle American,
- middle-class type,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicker,
- mock,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- model child,
- monkey,
- organization man,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- Philistine,
- phony,
- plagiarist,
- plagiarize,
- plastic person,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- poseur,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- quote,
- recite,
- redo,
- redouble,
- reduplicate,
- reecho,
- regurgitate,
- reincarnate,
- reiterate,
- renew,
- repeat,
- repeat by heart,
- reproduce,
- revive,
- say again,
- sheep,
- simulator,
- square,
- study,
- swot up,
- take off,
- take off on,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- yes-man
Words containing 'Parrot'
- Parroter,
- Carolina parrot,
- Gray parrot,
- Night parrot,
- Owl parrot,
- Parrot coal,
- Parrot fish,
- Parrot green,
- Parrot weed,
- Parrot wrasse,
- Pheasant parrot,
- Pygmy parrot,
- Ring parrot,
- Sea parrot,
- Vaza parrot,
- brown parrot,
- canary parrot,
- cockatoo parrot,
- mountain parrot,
- parrot disease,
- parrot fever,
- parrot's beak,
- parrot's bill,
- poll parrot,
- scallop parrot,
- shell parrot,
- undulated parrot,
- vasa parrot,
- Parrot's-bill,
- blue-bellied parrot,
- scarlet-breasted parrot