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