Parrot's Beak (Guinea)
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Plants

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Clianthus ''Clianthus'', commonly known as kaka beak (''kōwhai ngutukākā'' in Māori), is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, comprising two species of shrubs endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. They have striking cluste ...
'', a genus of flowering plants of New Zealand * ''
Lotus berthelotii ''Lotus berthelotii'' is a flowering plant endemic to the Canary Islands of Spain, in the genus '' Lotus'' of the pea family Fabaceae. Among its common names are lotus vine flower, parrot (or parrot's) beak, pelican beak, and coral gem. This plan ...
'', a perennial plant endemic to the Canary Islands * ''
Heliconia psittacorum ''Heliconia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae. Most of the 194 known species are native to the tropical Americas, but a few are indigenous to certain islands of the western Pacific and Maluku in Indonesi ...
'', a perennial herb of the Caribbean and South America * ''
Pterostylis nutans ''Pterostylis nutans'', commonly known as the nodding greenhood or the parrot's beak orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to eastern Australia. Nodding greenhoods have flowers which "nod" or lean forwards strongly, have a deeply notched sinus ...
'', also known as ''parrot's beak orchid'', an orchid of Australia and New Zealand


Places

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Parrot's Beak, Cambodia Parrot's Beak (''vùng mỏ két'', ''vùng mỏ vẹt'') was the name given to a salient of Svay Rieng Province, southeast Cambodia that protrudes into Hậu Nghĩa and Kien Tuong Provinces, Vietnam, approximately 65 km north-west of Sai ...
, an area in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia *
Kurram District Kurram District () is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river ''Kwarma'' () in Pashto, which itself derives from the Sanskrit word ''Krumu'' (). Until 2018, it funct ...
, an area of Pakistan known as the Parrot's Beak to American military planners * 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 border. The districts through which the river flows include the Parrot's Beak area of Guinea, Liberia's Lofa ...
* Parrot's Beak, a monolith on Mount Pico de Loro 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 used for plants. They are strong enough to pruning, prune hard branches of trees and shrubs, sometimes up to two centimetres ...
* ukpe-okhue, 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 (biology), family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin being found ...
* "The Parrot's Beak", an autobiographical essay by South Asian American activist and writer Kartar Dhillon


See also

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