turquoisine

English

Noun

turquoisine (plural turquoisines)

  1. Synonym of turquoise parrot
    • 1871, Norfolk (pseudonym), “Cockatiels”, in The Exchange and Mart‎, volume 4, number 139, page 481:
      The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.
    • 1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:
      But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.
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