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# budgie

«budgie» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small, bright green, blue or yellow parrot that people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a budgie, budgies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small, bright green, blue or yellow parrot that people often keep as a pet in a cage; its full name is budgerigar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#m1)

2) In Australia, a wild budgerigar that lives in big flocks in the dry inland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A common family pet in the UK, Australia and New Zealand; in the USA it is often called a parakeet. In lessons about pets and animals it shows how to care for a bird: clean water, seeds, a clean cage, toys and company. Wild budgies come from Australia. Phrases: «a pet budgie», «budgie cage».

### examples

- We have a blue budgie called Pip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x1)
- Our budgie chirps when we come into the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x2)
- Budgies like to look at themselves in a little mirror. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x3)
- Change the budgie's water every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x4)
- Wild budgies fly in huge green flocks in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x5)
- Grandma taught her budgie to say «hello». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x6)
- Keep the window shut when the budgie is out of its cage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/#x7)

### note

Short for «budgerigar». In American English the same bird is usually called a «parakeet». Plural: budgies. Budgies are happier in pairs because they are social birds.

### In the corpora

- [A pet budgie is a flock bird living in a house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/1/)
- [Budgies are very chatty birds that chatter and whistle a lot, and some pet budgies have learnt to say hundreds of words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/5/)
- [All wild budgies are green and yellow; the blue, white and other colours were bred in pet budgies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/6/)
- [Head-bobbing usually means a budgie is excited or showing off, and it can also be a sign that it wants food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/205-budgies-and-canaries/9/)
- [Budgies are flock birds that need a friend, a big cage and time to fly in a safe room.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/64-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «budgie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/budgie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.