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Plants

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Clianthus ''Clianthus'', commonly known as kakabeak (''kōwhai ngutukākā'' in Māori), is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, comprising two species of shrubs native to New Zealand. They have striking clusters of red flowers whic ...
'', a genus of flowering plants of New Zealand * ''
Lotus berthelotii Lotus may refer to: Plants *Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly: ** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae **Lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant also ...
'', a perennial plant endemic to the Canary Islands * '' Heliconia psittacorum'', a perennial herb of the Caribbean and South America * '' Pterostylis nutans'', also known as ''parrot's beak orchid'', an orchid of Australia and New Zealand


Places

* Parrot's Beak, Cambodia, an area in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia * Parrot's Beak (Guinea), a region of Guinea traversed by the
Mano River The Mano River is a river in West Africa. It originates in the Guinea Highlands in Liberia and forms part of the Liberia-Sierra Leone Liberia–Sierra Leone border, border. The districts through which the river flows include the Parrot's Beak ...
* Parrot's Beak, a monolith on
Mount Pico de Loro Mount Pico de Loro, also known as ''Mount Palay-Palay'', is a dormant volcano located on the border of Cavite and Batangas, in the island of Luzon, Philippines. It is the highest mountain in the province of Cavite, with an elevation of above se ...
in the Philippines


Other uses

* any tool in the shape of a parrot's beak, for example a type of
pruning shears Pruning shears, also called hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs (in British English), are a type of scissors for use on plants. They are strong enough to prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to two centimetres thic ...
*
ukpe-okhue The ukpe-okhue (Edo for "parrot's beak") is a crown traditionally worn by the ''Iyoba'' (queen mother) of the Oba of Benin. It is formed of a snood-like net of precious coral beadwork, using ''ileke'' ("royal") cylindrical beads. This type of cr ...
, a crown of the Benin Empire * ''parrotbeak'', an obsolete east English regional name for the
Atlantic puffin The Atlantic puffin ('), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin is found in the northeastern ...
* "The Parrot's Beak", an autobiographical essay by South Asian American activist and writer Kartar Dhillon


See also

* Parrotbill (disambiguation) {{Disambig, plant, geo