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Definition of Lorikeets
1. lorikeet [n] - See also: lorikeet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lorikeets
Literary usage of Lorikeets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Both fhe lories and the lorikeets are remarkable for their extensible ...
The lorikeets are smaller than the lories and have long tapering tail-feathers. ..."
2. The Pet Book by Anna Botsford Comstock (1914)
"In India, the Philippines and the islands of the Malay Archipelago, are the queer
little bat-parrots, or lorikeets; scarcely more than six inches in length, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... maybe here particularized, while under the equally vague name of " lorikeets "
may be comprehended the genera Charmosyna, Loriculus, ..."
4. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"There is no Australian species of the little honey-feeding lorikeets yet discovered
with which the present could be confounded ; it is at once rendered ..."
5. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1905)
"In the above category the fruit- and honey-loving Parrakeets and lorikeets have
been principally dealt with, with the result that little affinity can be ..."
6. Report of the Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the by ANZAAS. (1905)
"In the above category the fruit- and honey-loving Parrakeets and lorikeets have
been principally dealt with, with the result that little affinity can be ..."
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