twenty-eight
[twenty A. 1 b, 2.]
twenty-eight parrakeet, a name for the yellow-collared Parrakeet of Australia (Platycercus semitorquatus), from its note.
| 1848 J. Gould Birds Australia V. pl. 19 Yellow-collared Parrakeet... It often utters a note, which from its resemblance to those words has procured for it the appellation of ‘twenty-eight’ Parrakeet from the colonists. |
See also twenty C.