turquoisine

English

Noun

turquoisine (plural turquoisines)

1. Synonym of turquoise parrot
   • 1871, Norfolk (pseudonym), “Cockatiels”, in The Exchange and Mart‎^[1], volume 4, number 139, page 481:

     The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.

   • 1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:

     But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.