Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A brownish-green New Zealand parrot (Nestor meridionalis).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A parrot of the genus Nestor, peculiar to New Zealand. The common kaka is N. hypopolius, and the mountain kaka N. notabilis. See Nestor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).
  • noun (Zoöl.) The kakapo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Maori kākā, from Proto-Polynesian *kākā, from reduplication of *kā, to screech.]

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From Maori kākā

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Examples

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  • Somebody took a little food and left it outside for the crows -- a ritual called "kaka shadham", or "crows' rice", in Tamil, to return part of the food to nature.

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  • Somebody took a little food and left it outside for the crows -- a ritual called "kaka shadham", or "crows' rice", in Tamil, to return part of the food to nature.

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  • Any of several New Zealand parrots of the genus Nestor, especially N. meridionalis,, with predominantly greenish and olive-brown plumage.

    February 8, 2008

  • Also a Brazilian footballer.

    February 9, 2008

  • But never both in the same body.

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    February 9, 2008