Word Meanings - ROSELLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A beautiful Australian parrakeet 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.

Related words: (words related to ROSELLA)

• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• VARIOLATION
  Inoculation with smallpox.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• VARIATION
  Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. (more info) 1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation;
• VARIX
  A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein. Note: Varices are owing to local retardation of the venous circulation, and in some cases to relaxation of the parietes of the veins. They are very common in the superficial veins of the lower
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• OVARITIS
  Inflammation of the ovaries.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• BLUETHROAT
  A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.