parrotlike

  • 31pollyfish — noun gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth • Syn: ↑parrotfish, ↑polly fish • Hypernyms: ↑percoid fish, ↑percoid, ↑percoidean • Member Holonyms: ↑Scaridae, ↑ …

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  • 32parrot fish — noun : any of numerous marine percoid fish having the teeth in each jaw fused into a cutting plate or parrotlike beak: a. : a fish of the family Scaridae b. : any of various wrasses c. : a fish of the family Oplegnathidae called also false parrot …

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  • 33psit|ta|cism — «SIHT uh sihz uhm», noun. a parrotlike use or repetition of words without awareness or understanding of their meaning. ╂[< Greek psittakós parrot + English ism] …

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