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单词 white cockatoo
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white cockatoo
white cockatoo n. any of several cockatoos of the genus Cacatua having predominantly white plumage, esp. the sulphur-crested cockatoo, C. galerita, of Australia and (in later use) C. alba of Indonesia.
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1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. 328 (list) The greater white Cockatoo... The lesser white Cockatoo with a yellow crest.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. 286 The fields were covered, as by a snow-drift with flights of the large white cockatoo.
1942 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 July 13/2 The ‘boonch of lambs’ was a flock of white cockatoos hoeing into some melons in a shallow depression about half a mile away.
2010 P. F. Donald et al. Facing Extinction viii. 86 The White Cockatoo C. alba from the north Moluccas and the Tanimbar Corella C. goffiniana..were all extremely heavily traded.
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