parrot has definitions from the field of zoology
1
[ noun ] (zoology) usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
2
[ verb ] repeat mindlessly

Examples

"The students parroted the teacher's words"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

The content of his words may lapse back into monotonous repetition , as if a phonograph_needle were stuck in one groove ; only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom , common to our culture , which he has evidently heard , over_and_over , from a parent until he experiences it as part of him .

Related terms

repeat

3
[ noun ] a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated

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copycat

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