yellow-tailed black cockatoo
yellow-tailed black cockatoo noun: a large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
Noun
yellow-tailed black cockatoo (plural yellow-tailed black cockatoos)
- A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
- Charles, 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
- [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. 9
Forms of yellow-tailed black cockatoo
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Questions about yellow-tailed black cockatoo
- What does yellow-tailed black cockatoo mean?
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo means a large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
- What part of speech is yellow-tailed black cockatoo?
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo is a noun.
- What is the plural of yellow-tailed black cockatoo?
- The plural of yellow-tailed black cockatoo is yellow-tailed black cockatoos.
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