PARROT
Dictionary entry overview: What does parrot mean?
• PARROT (noun)
The noun PARROT has 2 senses:
1. usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
2. a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
Familiarity information: PARROT used as a noun is rare.
• PARROT (verb)
The verb PARROT has 1 sense:
1. repeat mindlessly
Familiarity information: PARROT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PARROT (noun)
Meaning:
Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("parrot" is a kind of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parrot"):
parakeet; paraquet; paroquet; parrakeet; parroket; parroquet (any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots)
lory (small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits)
lovebird (small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates)
cockateel; cockatiel; cockatoo parrot; Nymphicus hollandicus (small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head)
cockatoo (white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds)
kea; Nestor notabilis (large brownish-green New Zealand parrot)
macaw (long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots)
amazon (mainly green tropical American parrots)
African gray; African grey; Psittacus erithacus (commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face; native to equatorial Africa)
poll; poll parrot (a tame parrot)
popinjay (archaic)
Holonyms ("parrot" is a member of...):
order Psittaciformes; Psittaciformes (an order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets)
Meaning:
A copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("parrot" is a kind of...):
ape; aper; copycat; emulator; imitator (someone who copies the words or behavior of another)
• PARROT (verb)
Meaning:
Repeat mindlessly
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
The students parroted the teacher's words
Hypernyms (to "parrot" is one way to...):
echo; repeat (to say again or imitate)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
