Parrot (disambiguation)

Parrot can refer to:

Biology

• Parrots, any of about 353 species of birds belonging to the biological order Psittaciformes, which includes:
  • True parrots
  • Cockatoos
  • New Zealand parrots
• Psittacosis (parrot disease or parrot fever), an infectious disease of parrots
• Parrot crossbill, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae
• Parrot Waxcap, a fungus
• Parrot feather, Myriophyllum aquaticum, a flowering plant, also called water milfoils

Company:

• Parrot (company), a French company which produces wireless products
• Parrot Corporation, a British floppy disk manufacturer
• Parrot Records, American record label, a division of London Records
• Parrot Records (blues label), American Chicago-based record label

IT:

• Parrot virtual machine, an interpreter currently being developed for Perl 6 and other dynamic programming languages
• Parrot assembly language, an assembly language used to program the virtual machine
• Parrot_Security_OS, a penetration-testing Operating System based on Debian.

Surname:

• Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767–1852), Estonian scientist
• Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot (1792–1841), Estonian naturalist
• Philippe Parrot (1831–1894), French painter
• William Parrot, birth name of the English music hall performer best known under the stage name Talbot O'Farrell (1878–1952)

Other:

• Parrot (crater), a lunar impact crater

Aircraft

• CZAW Parrot, a Czech light-sport aircraft

See also

• Parrott (disambiguation)
• Parrotbill, an Old World passerine bird of the family Paradoxornithidae
• Parrotfish, a Perciformes marine fish of the family Scaridae, and two other fish, the blood parrot and the parrot cichlid
• Flaubert's Parrot, 1984 novel by Julian Barnes