yellow-tailed black cockatoo

noun

A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.

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Meanings

nounyellow-tailed black cockatoo (plural yellow-tailed black cockatoos)

plural yellow-tailed black cockatoos

  1. A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.

    [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
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    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

Translations

Dutch geeloograafkaketoe
  • geeloograafkaketoeZanda funerea
Russian тра́урный какаду́
  • тра́урный какаду́ (tráurnyj kakadú)Zanda funerea
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