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Meaning of yellow-tailed black cockatoo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.

Equivalents

Nederlands geeloograafkaketoe

Русский тра́урный какаду́

Examples

“Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest.”

“[T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

yellow-throated marten yellow-throated spadebill yellow-throated warbler yellow-toothed cavy yellow-vented bulbul yellow-weed