cockatoo

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcockatoocock‧a‧too /ˌkɒkəˈtuː $ ˈkɑːkətuː/ noun [countable] HBAan Australian parrot with a lot of feathers on the top of its headExamples from the Corpuscockatoo• There are seagulls, he says, and terns and storks and cockatoos.• Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands.• There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.• Some of them had orange- or blue-streaked hair, making them look like cockatoos.• On the wall alongside us was a tiled, tropical landscape of pastel cockatoos and parrots.• Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches.Origin cockatoo (1600-1700) Dutch kaketoe, from Malay kakatua, from kakak “older brother or sister” + tua “old”

单词	cockatoo
释义	cockatoo From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcockatoocock‧a‧too /ˌkɒkəˈtuː $ ˈkɑːkətuː/ noun [countable] HBAan Australian parrot with a lot of feathers on the top of its headExamples from the Corpuscockatoo• There are seagulls, he says, and terns and storks and cockatoos.• Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands.• There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.• Some of them had orange- or blue-streaked hair, making them look like cockatoos.• On the wall alongside us was a tiled, tropical landscape of pastel cockatoos and parrots.• Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches.Origin cockatoo (1600-1700) Dutch kaketoe, from Malay kakatua, from kakak “older brother or sister” + tua “old”
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