yellow-tailed black cockatoo en · NOUN
Meanings
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A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
[T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children.
2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest.
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 304:
Forms
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| yellow-tailed black cockatoos | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
nl geeloograafkaketoe (Zanda funerea) · ru тра́урный какаду́ (Zanda funerea) · wyi yanggai (Zanda funerea)