Other forms: parakeets
A parakeet is a small long-tailed parrot. A green parakeet, keep parakeets, parakeets in the park.
Ring-necked ones have established themselves wild across London and other European cities, descended from escaped pets, and nobody is sure how they survive the winters. The budgerigar is a parakeet. The name shares a root with parrot.
1nounparakeetA small long-tailed parrot.
“A bright green parakeet landed on the bird feeder in our garden.”
parakeet is a bird.
Middle French perroquet is probably a diminutive of the name Pierre, the same root as parrot.
Middle French
perroquet
English, today
parakeet
From Middle French perroquet, probably a diminutive form of the personal name Pierre; some variant forms perhaps via Italian parrocchetto, Spanish periquito.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA