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# lorikeet

«lorikeet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, very brightly coloured parrot from Australia…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lorikeet, lorikeets)

### meaning for a pupil

A lorikeet is a small, very brightly coloured parrot from Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands, which feeds on nectar and pollen from flowers with a brush-tipped tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In Australian and NZ life, rainbow lorikeets are common in gardens and parks, noisy and colourful (blue head, green back, orange chest). In science lessons they show how birds pollinate flowers and adapt to eat nectar. In New Zealand and Western Australia they can be pests because they were brought in and compete with local birds. Phrases: «rainbow lorikeet», «a flock of lorikeets».

### examples

- A rainbow lorikeet landed on our balcony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#x1)
- Lorikeets drink nectar from gum tree flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#x2)
- The lorikeets screeched in the trees at sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#x3)
- Lorikeets have tongues like little brushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#x4)
- Feeding bread and honey to lorikeets can make them sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#x5)
- We counted twelve lorikeets in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lorikeet/#x6)

### note

Countable: a lorikeet, lorikeets. Pronounced «LOR-ih-keet». Related: lory (a bigger parrot). Wildlife experts say not to feed wild lorikeets honey or bread, as it is bad for their health.

### In the corpora

- [Lorikeets have brush-tipped tongues for licking nectar and pollen from flowers, and they are noisy visitors to gardens in eastern Australia.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/303-parrots-of-the-world-macaws-cockatoos-african-greys-lorikeets-and-the-cheeky-kea/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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