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Definition of corella in English: corellanoun kəˈrɛləkəˈrelə A white Australasian cockatoo with some pink feathers on the face, bare blue skin around the eye, and typically a long bill. Genus Cacatua, family Cacatuidae (or Psittacidae): three species, in particular the widespread little corella (C. sanguinea) Example sentencesExamples - The local GWN office was inundated with calls on Friday after it was reported a television station had scared off a Perth gun club hired to cull corellas in Dongara.
- Across the river you'll spot (depending on the time of day and tilt of your head) swooping eagles, bulbous 1000-year old boab trees, flocks of noisy corellas or silent stars.
- At this particular waterhole we've got a lot of galahs and corellas around and storms like this kick into life the ecosystems out here.
- We were there too the following dawn when it was so still that the Gorge seemed like a translucent painting, disturbed only by the flurry of noisy corellas fleeing from tree to tree.
- But I thought western corellas would be easy, and western wattlebirds are classified as common.
- More than 4000 corellas have been hanging around Dongara this summer.
- Overhead, meanwhile, a wedge-tailed eagle hovers on the breeze and a posse of corellas flee in a flurry from tree to tree, their bar-room squawk amplified by the walls of the Gorge.
- It's early evening when Nick and I walk down to a bend in the river, and the red tail black cockatoos and little corellas are settling into the gum trees.
Origin Late 19th century: from Wiradhuri. Rhymes a cappella, Arabella, Bella, bestseller, Capella, cellar, Cinderella, citronella, Clarabella, Daniela, Della, dispeller, dweller, Ella, expeller, favela, fella, fellah, feller, Fenella, Floella, foreteller, Heller, impeller, interstellar, Keller, Louella, Mandela, mortadella, mozzarella, Nigella, novella, paella, panatella, patella, predella, propeller, queller, quinella, repeller, rosella, rubella, salmonella, Santiago de Compostela, seller, smeller, speller, Stella, stellar, tarantella, teller, umbrella, Viyella Definition of corella in US English: corellanounkəˈrelə A white Australasian cockatoo with some pink feathers on the face, bare blue skin around the eye, and typically a long bill. Genus Cacatua, family Cacatuidae (or Psittacidae): three species, in particular the widespreadlittle corella (C. sanguinea) Example sentencesExamples - Across the river you'll spot (depending on the time of day and tilt of your head) swooping eagles, bulbous 1000-year old boab trees, flocks of noisy corellas or silent stars.
- At this particular waterhole we've got a lot of galahs and corellas around and storms like this kick into life the ecosystems out here.
- It's early evening when Nick and I walk down to a bend in the river, and the red tail black cockatoos and little corellas are settling into the gum trees.
- Overhead, meanwhile, a wedge-tailed eagle hovers on the breeze and a posse of corellas flee in a flurry from tree to tree, their bar-room squawk amplified by the walls of the Gorge.
- The local GWN office was inundated with calls on Friday after it was reported a television station had scared off a Perth gun club hired to cull corellas in Dongara.
- More than 4000 corellas have been hanging around Dongara this summer.
- But I thought western corellas would be easy, and western wattlebirds are classified as common.
- We were there too the following dawn when it was so still that the Gorge seemed like a translucent painting, disturbed only by the flurry of noisy corellas fleeing from tree to tree.
Origin Late 19th century: from Wiradhuri. |