sulphur-crested cockatoo

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sulphur-crested cockatoo (plural sulphur-crested cockatoos)

  1. A large Australian cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, with a yellow erectile crest. [from 19th c.]
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 223:
      [A] mob of sulphur-crested cockatoos took roost above her inspiration of Wordsworth's latest rewriting of The Prelude [] .

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