shell parakeet

Questions about shell parakeet

What does shell parakeet mean?

shell parakeet means "small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors".

What is another word for shell parakeet?

Close synonyms include budgerigar, budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet. 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 shell parakeet a common word?

shell parakeet 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.