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Webster 1913 Edition
Rosella
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Ro′sel′la
,Noun.
[NL., dim. of L.
rosa
rose.] (Zool.)
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.