alexandrine parakeet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.82 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A medium-sized parrot, Psittacula eupatria, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Example Sentences
- "Alexandrine parakeets are among those parrot species that also come in a mutant blue color variety due to the suppression of yellow pigmentation."
- "She’s a parrot, children, a special kind – an Alexandrine parakeet. Notice her head, it’s bigger than most other parrots, and when she gets feathers she’ll have these pretty red shoulder patches ...."
- "In the thirteenth century, Frederick II acquired an umbrella cockatoo from the Sultan of Babylon, and in the fourteenth century, Charles IV of France had an Alexandrine parakeet in his aviary."
Etymology
Named after Alexander the Great, who transported numerous birds from Punjab to various European and Mediterranean countries and regions, where they were prized by the royalty, nobility and warlords.