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sulphur-crested cockatoos

sulphur-crested cockatoos is the plural 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 sulphur-crested cockatoos

What is sulphur-crested cockatoos the plural of?
Sulphur-crested cockatoos is the plural of sulphur-crested cockatoo.

Words near sulphur-crested cockatoos in the dictionary

  1. sulphur-bottom
  2. sulphur-bottom whale
  3. sulphur-colour
  4. sulphur-coloured
  5. sulphur-crested cockatoo
  6. sulphur-crested cockatoos
  7. sulphur-free
  8. sulphurate
  9. sulphurated
  10. sulphurates
  11. sulphurating

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