parrot's bill

1. 1.

   evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand

   Synonymsparrot's beakClianthus puniceus

   Broaderglory pea

Questions about parrot's bill

What does parrot's bill mean?

parrot's bill means "evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand".

What is another word for parrot's bill?

Close synonyms include parrot's beak, Clianthus puniceus. 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's bill a common word?

parrot's bill 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.