Definition of Nestor notabilis

1. Noun. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

Exact synonyms: Kea
Generic synonyms: Parrot
Group relationships: Genus Nestor, Nestor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestor Notabilis

Nervous-Nelly
Nervous Nellie
Nervous Nelly
Nerys
Nesokia
Nessa
Nesselrode
Nesselrode pudding
Nessie
Nessies
Nessler
Nessler's reagent
Nestor
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
Nestor notabilis
Nestorian
Nestorian Church
Nestorianism
Nestorianisms
Nestorians
Nestorius
Net
NetBeans
Netanyahu
Netherlander
Netherlanders
Netherlandic
Netherlandish
Netherlands

Literary usage of Nestor notabilis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"WL Buller, ' Birds of New Zealand," vol. ip 166 : " nestor notabilis, Gould, Kea-parrot, Mountain-parrot of the Colonists." " The Kea picks the fat which ..."

2. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"nestor notabilis, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., Supplement, pL It must be remembered that we are indebted to Mr. Walter Mantell for the acquisition of a ..."

3. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"3. A scrofulous swelling of the neck. 4. A turnip. 6. The Mountain Parrot (Orn. nestor notabilis) ; also kou. KEHE, the name of a fish. KEHO, sandstone. ..."

4. New Zealand by James Cowan (1908)
"... (nestor notabilis). The kea is a true mountaineer, and its screams are heard high on the storm-swept heights and in the regions of perpetual snow and ..."

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