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wyla

wyla noun: the yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.

Noun

wyla

  1. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.
    • The natives tell me of another kind of Cockatoo (besides Wyla and Geringora), which they call Carat’. It is very shy.1826, N.A. Vigors, Thomas Horsefield, “A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society, volume 15, page 273
    • The dark-plumaged funereal cockatoo or wyla (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is another Australian species.1952, Encyclopædia Britannica, A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 912

Origin of wyla

Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language; compare Awabakal waiila (“black cockatoo”).

Questions about wyla

What does wyla mean?
Wyla means the yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.
What part of speech is wyla?
Wyla is a noun.

Words near wyla in the dictionary

  1. Wykeses
  2. Wykle
  3. Wykles
  4. Wykoff
  5. Wykoffs
  6. wyla
  7. Wylam
  8. Wyland
  9. Wylands
  10. wyld
  11. Wylde

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