parrot fever

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   an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds

   Synonymspsittacosisornithosis

   Broaderatypical pneumonia

Questions about parrot fever

What does parrot fever mean?

parrot fever means "an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds".

What is another word for parrot fever?

Close synonyms include psittacosis, ornithosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parrot fever a common word?

parrot fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.