Macaw

Word MACAW
Character 5
Hyphenation ma caw
Pronunciations /məˈkɔː/

Definitions and meanings of "Macaw"

What do we mean by macaw?

Any of various parrots of several genera found in Mexico and South and Central America, including the largest parrots and characterized by a long tail, curved powerful bill, and usually brilliant plumage. noun

A large American parrot of the family Psittacidæ and subfamily Arinæ, having a very long graduated tail and the face partly bare of feathers. noun

Any parrot of the genus Ara, Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them found in Central and South America. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted; they are among the largest and showiest of parrots. Different species names have been given to the same macaw, as for example the Hyacinthine macaw, which has been variously classified as Anodorhyncus hyacynthinus, Anodorhyncus maximiliani, and Macrocercus hyacynthinus. noun

A West Indian name for a prickly kind of nightshade (Solanum mammosum). noun

A tropical American palm (Acrocomia fusiformis and other species) having a prickly stem and pinnately divided leaves. Its nut yields a yellow butter, with the perfume of violets, which is used in making violet soap. Called also grugru palm. noun

Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage. noun

Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots noun

Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.

An insanely expensive bird that costs more than most people would pay for a human being. They are loud, messy, and only used as a status symbol. They are often targets of theft, due to their cost and resale value. Many species are endangered and/or smuggled into the United States and should be left wild and free in Central and South America where they belong. Urban Dictionary

The art of ma, ma, ma, MACAW-ing in front of someones face while flapping your arms prevuiosly and bobbing the head. Urban Dictionary

The art of ma, ma, ma, MACAW ing while bobbing your head and flapping your wings Urban Dictionary

The art of ma, ma, ma, MACAW ing with your mouth while flapping your wings and bobbing your neck back and fourth. Urban Dictionary

A Macaw that can be dyed blue to represent the dead blue macaws. Normal Macaw are colored white. Because white things are normal Urban Dictionary

The Best professional quidditch team in New Zealand. Known for there speed and agility the Macaws are a very well-reknown southern hemisphere team. Often seen performing in the Australian league of quidditch and Pacific rink. Signature Play: The Mac-adrado (mix of Macaw and Latin adrado meaning to pare close) This play is similar to the dunk in the muggles game of basketball. The beaters block the center and hit the bludgers towards the keeper. The center then throws the quaffle into the hoop from a very close range guaranteeing points for the team. Team Colours: Blue, Yellow and Red. Urban Dictionary

A well liked sociable white boy Urban Dictionary

Was used to mess with Singapore's 2018 Secondary Four cohort during their GCE Ordinary Level Listening Comprehension. Urban Dictionary

An individual who goes to sleep and wakes up not too early or too late; is in between early risers and night owls. Urban Dictionary

Mari the Macaw is an expression used to describe someone who is beautiful, intelligent, selfless, etc. Other words that can be used for this expression are perfect, flawless, hence Mari the Macaw. Urban Dictionary

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The word "macaw" in example sentences

The macaw was a baby, a little chunk of pink flesh with no feathers. ❋ Anne Johnson (2007)

"Then _I_ must go, my lady," said Marriott, angrily, "that is certain; for to part with my macaw is a thing I cannot do to please _any_ body." ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

'Then I must go, my lady,' said Marriott, angrily, 'that is certain; for to part with my macaw is a thing I cannot do to please any body.' ❋ Unknown (1801)

For rain forests, I hope to be a grandfather that can walk in the rainforest with his grandson or daughter and tell him, "Well, this macaw nest on this shihuahuaco tree here, it's exactly the same way I remember it 20 or 40 or 60 years ago, and it's still producing chicks every year." ❋ Wendy Diamond (2012)

The weekend's big hit was Rio, a 3-D animated film featuring Jesse Eisenberg as the voice of Blu the macaw. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He's been so thoroughly domesticated by his loving owner, Linda Leslie Mann that he studies aerodynamics in his cage, yet continues to walk around their cozy home in Minnesota until a Brazilian ornithologist named Tulio comes out of nowhere and proposes mating him with the street-smart, high-flying Jewel in Rio to save the macaw species. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

I have to ask why the pruning shears sound like a macaw or maybe they are electric??????? ❋ Unknown (2010)

And Captain Flint, the green parrot, is played by a scarlet macaw. ❋ Unknown (2012)

But Fleiss' three-year stint in jail, run-ins with exes like Tom Sizemore and struggles with drugs sound almost normal compared to her other addiction: Caring for more than 20 exotic macaw parrots. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the loss of species also including the Hawaiian crow and Jamaican red macaw may yet help currently endangered birds, hope the organisers of an ambitious multimedia art project. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Among the most striking is a modern Mebengokre krokrokti, a macaw and heron feather headdress from Brazil that is worn as a cape during naming and initiation ceremonies. ❋ AP (2010)

We also get to sell a service which allows us not only to profit in the business in usual sense, but also to invest in really cool things, like macaw research and conservation or sharing with indigenous communities committed to protecting their territories. ❋ Wendy Diamond (2012)

Featuring the voice of Jesse Eisenberg as a macaw that can't fly, "Rio" built on its strong international debut last weekend and has grossed a total of $168 million world-wide after 10 days. ❋ Michelle Kung (2011)

As a direct result, "parrot patrols" organized by local communities in the region, 11 scarlet macaw chicks who were confiscated directly from poachers were provided care until they were old enough to fly and rejoin their flocks and families, instead of spending the rest of their lives in small cages. ❋ Will Travers (2012)

Comparison of the skull of Psittacosaurus gobiensis and a modern-day dinosaur, the macaw. ❋ Docbrite (2009)

The Caribe had a waterfall and a macaw in the lobby, and constant squawks interrupted the Bronx-accented Roman orations of Tony Curtis, teasing me in a toga, in Cinemascope. ❋ Lea Lane (2011)

But American doctors whose patients run afoul of a duck, macaw, parrot, goose, turkey or chicken will be able to select from nine codes for each animal, notes George Alex, an official at the Advisory Board Co., a health-care research firm. ❋ Anna Wilde Mathews (2011)

Joey: I asked my mom for a pet macaw but she wouldnt buy me one Craig: Good, [you're mom] at least has some sense then. Why would anybody spend [fifteen] hundred dollars on a pet bird that'll bite your ass when you still have [the rent] to pay? ❋ Babadoo (2007)

[when i] [saw] her in the [hallway], i macawed at her. ❋ LAUREN SARAH AND ELAINA AKA THE BIRD BUDDIES (2005)

while doing this [physically], try to [fly] and be like an [eagle]. ❋ Sass Lainey Coll Coll Laur And Edoggie (2005)

Trying to be like an [eagle] [flying] [in the wind]. ❋ Sass Lainey Coll Coll Laur And Edoggie (2005)

Black boi: Normal [Macaw] [White boi]: What the heck? What is a normal [macaw]? What color is it? Black Boi: White. Because white things are normal [True story]. ❋ BitchWithDumbDefinitions (2019)

"[can't wait] for the Moutohura Macaws [game] [tonight]!" ❋ Lathius (2013)

He's so swab macaw. I can't [wait] [to hang] out [with him]! ❋ Tia Kell (2014)

[Can you] actually [pronounce] "Spix's macaw" [properly]? ❋ SG Transit Evolution (2018)

I'm a mediocre macaw, [I go] [to bed] at 11 and [wake up] at 7 every day. ❋ Zzaaqq (2017)

[Aliya] is so a Mari the Macaw! ❋ Maddertonlover (2019)

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