grass parrot

English

Noun

grass parrot (plural grass parrots)

1. (Australia) Any of various parrots that live in grassy country, especially of the genera Psephotus and Neophema.
   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 417:

     Picture smoke-choked birds—the native swifts & grass parrots that had not been caught & painted […] dropping dead from the sky into that boiling sea.

Synonyms

• grass parakeet