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.

Simplified etymology

Budgerigar, recorded from the mid-19th century, is one of the Australian animal names taken into English from Aboriginal languages. The passage does not identify the particular language or original form.

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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