Parrot

parrot
    n 1: usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with
         short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
    2: a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being
       imitated
    v 1: repeat mindlessly; "The students parroted the teacher's
         words"
    

Parrot \Par"rot\ (p[a^]r"r[u^]t), n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim.
   of Pierre Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow.
   Cf. {Paroquet}, {Petrel}, {Petrify}.]
   1. (Zool.) In a general sense, any bird of the order
      {Psittaci}.
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   2. (Zool.) Any species of {Psittacus}, {Chrysotis}, {Pionus},
      and other genera of the family {Psittacid[ae]}, as
      distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories.
      They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked
      space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako ({Psittacus
      erithacus}) of Africa (see {Jako}), and the species of
      Amazon, or green, parrots ({Chrysotis}) of America, are
      examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to
      imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.
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   {Carolina parrot} (Zool.), the Carolina parrakeet. See
      {Parrakeet}.

   {Night parrot}, or {Owl parrot}. (Zool.) See {Kakapo}.

   {Parrot coal}, cannel coal; -- so called from the crackling
      and chattering sound it makes in burning. [Eng. & Scot.]
      

   {Parrot green}. (Chem.) See {Scheele's green}, under {Green},
      n.

   {Parrot weed} (Bot.), a suffrutescent plant ({Bocconia
      frutescens}) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer
      parts of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid
      leaves, and small, panicled, apetalous flowers.

   {Parrot wrasse}, {Parrot fish} (Zool.), any fish of the genus
      {Scarus}. One species ({Scarus Cretensis}), found in the
      Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly
      prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Parrot \Par"rot\, v. t.
   To repeat by rote, without understanding, as a parrot.
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Parrot \Par"rot\, v. i.
   To chatter like a parrot.
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98 Moby Thesaurus words for "parrot":
      Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, ape,
      bourgeois, burgher, come again, commit to memory,
      compulsive character, con, conformer, conformist, conventionalist,
      copier, copy, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler,
      dissimulator, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double,
      duplicate, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, formalist,
      get by heart, get letter-perfect, have by heart, hit off,
      hit off on, hypocrite, imitate, imitator, impersonate,
      impersonator, impostor, know by heart, learn by heart,
      learn verbatim, memorize, methodologist, middle-class type, mime,
      mimer, mimic, mimicker, mock, mocker, mockingbird, model child,
      monkey, organization man, pedant, perfectionist, phony, plagiarist,
      plagiarize, plastic person, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot,
      poseur, precisian, precisianist, quote, recite, redo, redouble,
      reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate, reiterate, renew,
      repeat, repeat by heart, reproduce, revive, say again, sheep,
      simulator, square, study, swot up, take off, take off on,
      teenybopper, trimmer, yes-man