Meanings
noun
- The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.
The dark-plumaged funereal cockatoo or wyla (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is another Australian species.
1952, Encyclopædia Britannica, A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 9121 more example
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
Origin
Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language; compare Awabakal waiila (“black cockatoo”).
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