Etymology

wyla

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Today it means: The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.