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plural parakeets
Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions. quotations examples
we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
According to one legend, the parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen, John Huston's 1951 film made at Shepperton studios.
2009 October 12, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian