psittaciform
Glossary term
/sɪˈtæs.ɪ.fɔːm/
Also appears as: Psittaciform
Of the order Psittaciformes: parrots and their kin. Hawksmoor’s zoological condition beneath the civic regalia.
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…At the risk of unduly anthropomorphising the psittaciform, I venture to suggest that her behaviour also disturbed the tranquillity of her conductor, for whenever thus vexed, he bestowed upon that dilapidated corner of creation the coarsest and most vulgar epithets. For her part, the budgerigar at intervals favoured a rap world with, besides a medley of random and inchoate squarks, one or two two intelligible inanities of her own -…
Psittaciform (adj.) /ˈsɪtəsɪfɔrm/Of or pertaining to the form of a parrot, q.v also ‘psittastic’.