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tiriba en · NOUN

Etymology

From Old Tupi tiriba.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, possibly) The white-eared parakeet.
   • The Ganuba is found in the northern parts of Brazil, especially in the regions near the Amazon river, but nowhere else in great numbers. Another of the gorgeously colored Paroquets, is the Tiriba, of Brazil (Conurus leucotis). 1878, Jacob Henry Studer, Studer's Popular Ornithology ..., page 69:
   • Perroquets, maracanas, maitaccas, tiribas, curicas, camutangas, nandayas, and other species of parrots, flew, loudly screaming, in numerous flocks from bank to bank; 1830, Josiah Conder, Brazil and Buenos Ayres ..., page 142:

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