budgerigar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small Australian parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, commonly kept as a cage bird and bred in many colors

   The budgerigar tilted its head and copied the short whistle.

Probably adapted from an Australian Aboriginal language, often compared with Gamilaraay gijirrigaa; the exact path and reshaping of the word remain uncertain.

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