shining polishing | the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it, the shining of shoes provided a meager living, every Sunday he gave his car a good polishing |
parrot | usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds |
poll poll parrot | a tame parrot |
cockateel cockatiel cockatoo parrot Nymphicus hollandicus | small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
Shining Path Sendero Luminoso SL | a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru, is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world, seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime, is involved in the cocaine trade, Shining Path has been responsible for , deaths |
parrot | a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated |
parrot's beak parrot's bill Clianthus puniceus | evergreen shrub with scarlet to white clawlike or beaklike flowers, New Zealand |
shining willow Salix lucida | common North American shrub with shiny lanceolate leaves |
dwarf sumac mountain sumac black sumac shining sumac Rhus copallina | common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries |
shining clubmoss Lycopodium lucidulum | a variety of club moss |
psittacosis parrot fever ornithosis | an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds |
psittacosis parrot disease | infectious disease of birds |
parrot | repeat mindlessly, The students parroted the teacher's words |
glistening glossy lustrous sheeny shiny shining | reflecting light, glistening bodies of swimmers, the horse's glossy coat, lustrous auburn hair, saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet, shining white enamel |
bright burnished lustrous shining shiny | made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing, reflecting a sheen or glow, bright silver candlesticks, a burnished brass knocker, she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves, rows of shining glasses, shiny black patents |
shining | marked by exceptional merit, had shining virtues and few faults, a shining example |