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sulfur-crested cockatoo

sulfur-crested cockatoo is the alternative spelling of sulphur-crested cockatoo.

Meaning of sulphur-crested cockatoo

Noun

sulphur-crested cockatoo (plural sulphur-crested cockatoos)

  1. A large Australian cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, with a yellow erectile crest.
    • [A] mob of sulphur-crested cockatoos took roost above her inspiration of Wordsworth's latest rewriting of The Prelude […].2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 223

Questions about sulfur-crested cockatoo

What is sulfur-crested cockatoo the alternative spelling of?
Sulfur-crested cockatoo is the alternative spelling of sulphur-crested cockatoo.

Words near sulfur-crested cockatoo in the dictionary

  1. sulfur-bottom whale
  2. sulfur-bottom whales
  3. sulfur-bottoms
  4. sulfur-color
  5. sulfur-colored
  6. sulfur-crested cockatoo
  7. sulfur-iodine cycle
  8. sulfurane
  9. sulfuranes
  10. sulfurase
  11. sulfurases

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