Rosella

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

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rosella
n. 1) A bird, Platycercuseximius, the Rosehill (q.v.). 1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,'...

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