cockatoo

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But John Broom seated himself on the same branch as the cockatoo, and undid the chain and prepared his hands for the downward journey You've got a rare perch, this time," said he.

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  1. noun Any of various large parrots, especially of the genus Kakatoe of Australia and adjacent areas, characterized by a long erectile crest.

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  • I went upstairs to a room where a cockatoo was kept—a mischievous brute—took him off his chain, and carried him into Lady Bosworth's room. —  Magazine - Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - 2007 - Issue 03 - March
  • And we had pets; I remember I once caught a live cockatoo, and trained him to help me in my hunting expeditions. —  Adventures of Louis de Rougemont
  • Despite air fares dropping faster than a crook cockatoo, most of us still see Australia as the once-in-a-lifetime, dream destination. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • She is accused of exchanging a 5-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, who weren't related to her, for a cockatoo and cash last month. —  theadvertiser.com -
  • The cockatoo - which an Evangeline Parish couple had advertised for sale for $1,500 on a flier hanging in a feed store - is still with Greenwell's family. —  theadvertiser.com -
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  1. Dutch kaketoe, from Malay kakatua.

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  1. Earlier cacatoo, cacatoe; = Dutch kakatoe, kakketoe = German kakadu = Danish kakadue = Swedish cacadu, kakadu = French kakatoës = New Latin cacatua, from Hindustani kākātūa, Malay kakatūa, a cockatoo: so called in imitation of its cry. Cf. cock (to which the word has been assimilated) and cackle.
 

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