Definitions
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- noun Any of several species of white
cockatoo of the subgenus Licmetis within the genusCacatua .
Etymologies
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From Wiradhuri.
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Examples
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A subspecies of western corella, Cacatua pastinator pastinator is also found in this ecoregion, with fewer than 2,500 mature birds present.
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With darkness silence and stillness return, but then some idiot corella falls off the rotten twig on which it has perched and the whole white flock wheels screeching into the air again.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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A cold southerly wind rustled through the coolabah trees with a sweet hissing sound as a corella squawked into a colourless sky.
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"Maybe they could be a new tourism idea - the corella cull," she said.
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"Maybe they could be a new tourism idea - the corella cull," she said.
reesetee commented on the word corella
Any of a group of white cockatoos from the subgenus Licmetis.
February 8, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word corella
"There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 461
April 18, 2009