cockatoo 的定义
plural cock·a·toos.
- any of numerous large, noisy, crested parrots of the genera Cacatua, Callocephalon, Calyptorhynchus, etc., of the Australasian region, having chiefly white plumage tinged with yellow, pink, or red: popular as a pet.
- Australian. a person who owns and works a small farm or ranch.Slang.a lookout posted by criminals or the operators of illegal gambling games.
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- Wickham says this is “fabulous news for this large, quiet and beautiful cockatoo,” which just 20 years before had numbered only 110 individuals.
- The doves were cooing and fluttering in the cornices and the cockatoo was preening his lemon colored topknot.
- And we had pets; I remember I once caught a live cockatoo, and trained him to help me in my hunting expeditions.
- Sentinel Cockatoo, however, was caught napping, and the garrison of the bower had to run for it.
- This is about the size of the great white cockatoo; the length twenty-two inches.
- I wish she had not thrust herself in,” said Bessie, “to prevent me from getting on with the child over the cockatoo.