lory

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   noun

   any of several small, brightly colored Australasian parrots with brush-tipped tongues adapted for feeding on nectar and soft fruit

   The red lory used its brush-tipped tongue to collect nectar from the blossom.

Borrowed from Malay luri, the name of a kind of parrot, perhaps a regional variant of nuri. Lory and lorikeet refer to closely related nectar-feeding parrots, with lorikeet generally used for the smaller, longer-tailed forms.

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