Carolina parakeet

Carolina parakeet

 
noun
an extinct New World parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis, that ranged into the northern U.S., having yellowish-green plumage with an orange-yellow head.
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1840–50, Americanism
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carolina parakeet

noun
extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States 
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