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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
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  • 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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