grass parrot

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Noun

grass parrot (plural grass parrots)

  1. (Australia) Any of various parrots that live in grassy country, especially of the genera Psephotus and Neophema.
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 417:
      Picture smoke-choked birds—the native swifts & grass parrots that had not been caught & painted [] dropping dead from the sky into that boiling sea.

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