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cockateel

cockateel is the obsolete spelling of cockatiel.

Meaning of cockatiel

Noun

cockatiel (plural cockatiels)

  1. Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest, native to Australia. Avicultural forms come in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied.
    • The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.1871, Norfolk (pseudonym), “Cockatiels”, in The Exchange and Mart, volume 4, number 139, page 481
    Synonyms:
    quarrion, weero

Forms of cockateel

pluralcockateels

Questions about cockateel

What is cockateel the obsolete spelling of?
Cockateel is the obsolete spelling of cockatiel.

Words near cockateel in the dictionary

  1. cockapoo
  2. cockapoos
  3. cockaroach
  4. cockarouse
  5. cockarouses
  6. cockateel
  7. cockateels
  8. cockatiel
  9. cockatiels
  10. cockatoo
  11. cockatoo apple

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cockateel (page history and authors); cockatiel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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