tiriba

tiriba

English

Etymology

Tupian.

Noun

tiriba (plural tiribas)

1. (possibly obsolete) The white-eared parakeet.
   • 1830, Josiah Conder, Brazil and Buenos Ayres ..., page 142:

     Perroquets, maracanas, maitaccas, tiribas, curicas, camutangas, nandayas, and other species of parrots, flew, loudly screaming, in numerous flocks from bank to bank;

   • 1878, Jacob Henry Studer, Studer's Popular Ornithology ..., page 69:

     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).