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budgerigar
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun budgerigar has 1 sense
- budgerigar(n = noun.animal) budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet - small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors; Array is a kind of parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet
is a member of genus melopsittacus, melopsittacus
CIDE DICTIONARY
budgerigar, n.
small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus ) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
budgerigar, n. a small green parrot, Melopsittacus undulatus, native to Australia, and bred in coloured varieties which are often kept as cage-birds.
Etymology
Aboriginal, = good cockatoo
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