cockatoo

Word family

cock·a·too /ˌkɒkəˈtuː $ ˈkɑːkətuː/ noun [countableC]

HBAan Australian parrot with a lot of feathers on the top of its head 〔澳大利亚〕凤头鹦鹉，葵花鹦鹉

Examples from the Corpus

cockatoo• There are seagulls, he says, and terns and storks and cockatoos.• Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands.• There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.• Some of them had orange- or blue-streaked hair, making them look like cockatoos.• On the wall alongside us was a tiled, tropical landscape of pastel cockatoos and parrots.• Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches.

Origin cockatoo

(1600-1700) Dutch kaketoe, from Malay kakatua, from kakak “older brother or sister” + tua “old”

cock·a·too noun

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