Lory is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LORY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Malay) a kind of small parrot, also LOERIE, LOURIE, LOWRIE, LOWRY
• a small Australasian and SE Asian parrot with a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and pollen, having mainly green plumage with patches of bright colour.
• small parrot of Australia and Indonesia
• Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.
• small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small parrot

Words related to LORY

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Words that contain LORY

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How to use LORY in a sentence

• A very peculiar and exceptional offshoot of the parrot group is the brush-tongued lory, several species of which are common in Australia, India, and the Molucca Islands.
• Yet the New Zealand owl-parrot is, to put it plainly, a lory which has assumed all the outer appearance and habits of an owl.
• Unlike the owls, however, the owl-parrot, true to the vegetarian instincts of the whole lory race, lives almost entirely upon sprigs of mosses and other creeping plants.
• There was a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
• It was usual for this bear, the cat, the dog, and a small blue mountain bird, or lory, of New Holland, to mess together and eat out of the same dish.
• The lory is of the size of a pigeon, the plumage dashed with green, part of the wings crimson, and its crest bordered with white.
• The most interesting specimen procured was one of a very handsome scarlet Lory, closely allied to Lorius domicellus, a bird widely spread over the Indian Archipelago.

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