| 单词 | black cockatoo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack cockatoo black cockatoo n. any of several large, predominantly black, Australian cockatoos constituting the genus Calyptorhynchus (family Cacatuidae), formerly regarded as subspecies of C. funereus; also (more fully great black cockatoo) the palm cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus, of the same family. ΚΠ 1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. 28 The Great Black Cockatoo. 1846 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 13 Calyptorhynchus baudinii... White-tailed Black Cockatoo of the Colonists. 1896 B. Spencer Rep. Horn Sci. Exped. Central Austral. I. 31 At the Goyder was secured the first specimen of the Western black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus stellulatus), which does not appear to extend further south than this. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 253 The great black cockatoo from New Guinea contrasts sharply with the great white cockatoo from the Moluccas. 2003 L. Glaister in D. Adebayo et al. New Writing 12 193 A couple of crows and a flock of black cockatoos hop about, suddenly scuttering upwards, flashing scarlet underwings. < as lemmas |
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