black cockatoo
noun
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.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in George Edwards (1694–1773), ornithologist and artist.
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