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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of cockatoos, sometimes made the type of a subfamily Calopsittinœ, the cockateels: usually restricted to a single species, the Australian cockateel, Calopsitta novœ-hollandiœ. Also Callipsittacus.

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