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rosella

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Noun
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CIDE DICTIONARY

rosellan. [NL., dim. of L. rosa rose.].
     A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rosella, n.
1 any brightly coloured Australian parakeet of the genus Platycercus.
2 Austral. an easily-shorn sheep.

Etymology
corrupt. of Rosehill, NSW, where the bird was first found
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