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PARROT'S BILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parrot's bill mean? 

PARROT'S BILL (noun)
  The noun PARROT'S BILL has 1 sense:

1. evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealandplay

  Familiarity information: PARROT'S BILL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARROT'S BILL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers; New Zealand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clianthus puniceus; parrot's beak; parrot's bill

Hypernyms ("parrot's bill" is a kind of...):

clianthus; glory pea (any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes)


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