white cockatoo

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Noun

white cockatoo (plural white cockatoos)

  1. Any of various cockatoos having predominantly white plumage: [from 18th c.]
    1. Cacatua alba, of Indonesia
    2. The sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, of Australia.
      • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 92:
        Even flocks of white cockatoos flying in a cloud along the beach like an angel with flapping wings, raucously cried for him.

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