: any of numerous parrots (especially genus Ara) of South and Central America including some of the largest and showiest of parrots
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Hendrix is a blue and gold macaw, WJAR reported on June 19.—Tj MacIas, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025 Adventure abounds when bird smugglers get involved and bird-nap the two macaws.—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025 Fitzgerald rescued Cisco, a 23-year-old blue-and-yellow macaw, about four years ago.—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025 There’s a naked guinea pig, a giant red macaw and an adorably chunky pit bull named Messy.—Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for macaw
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