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Definition: Cockatoo |
CockatooNoun1. White or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cockatoo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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A Cockatoo is any of about 20 species of bird belonging to the family Cacatuidae, one of the two families making up the order Psittaciformes, which includes all parrots.
Like other members of the parrot clan, cockatoos have a characteristic curved beak shape, a zygodactyl foot (two toes forward and two toes back), and many other common features.
Cockatoos differ in their distribution—all are confined to Australia and the nearby islands— and in a number of anatomical characteristics, including the often spectacular movable headcrest, and their lack of the Dyck texture feather composition which gives many of the parrots their iridescent colours.
In general, cockatoos are larger than parrots, though there are exceptions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cockatoo."
Crosswords: Cockatoo |
| English words defined with "cockatoo": Arara ♦ Black cockatoo ♦ Cacatua galerita ♦ Kakatoe galerita, Kakatoe leadbeateri ♦ pink cockatoo ♦ sulphur-crested cockatoo ♦ Wyla. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | In the Cockatoo Drydock, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, circa late 1942, while under repair for torpedo damage received in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. Note the arrangement of gun directors on her forward superstructure: main battery director atop the foremast, with FC fire control radar; and a secondary battery director, with FD fire control radar, on each bridge wing. Also note this ship's external degaussing cables, mounted on her hull sides. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Cockatoo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Cockatoo" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cockatoo": Black cockatoo ♦ cockatoo parrot ♦ funeral cockatoo ♦ great black cockatoo ♦ palm cockatoo ♦ pink cockatoo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cockatoo": cockatoo-plumed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cockatoo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الككتوه ببغاء ذو عرف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | какаду. (various references) | |
Czech | papoušek kakadu. (various references) | |
Danish | naesekakadue (gulah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo, slender billed cockatoo), lille ravnekakadue (glossy cockatoo, raven cockatoo). (various references) | |
Dutch | langsnavelkaketoe (gulah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo, slender billed cockatoo), langsnavelkakatoe (gulah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo, slender billed cockatoo). (various references) | |
Farsi | طوطی کاکل سفید(ج.ش.). (various references) | |
French | cacatoès. (various references) | |
German | kakadu. (various references) | |
Greek | είδοσ ψιττακού (parrakeet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קק"ו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kakadu. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kakatua (pincers, pliers with pincer shape), burung kakatua. (various references) | |
Italian | cacatua. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockatoocay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cacatua. (various references) | |
Romanian | cacadu. (various references) | |
Russian | какаду. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kakadu, ćubasti papagaj. (various references) | |
Spanish | cacatúa. (various references) | |
Swedish | kakadua. (various references) | |
Turkish | rengârenk bir papağan türü, kakadu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | какаду. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cockatoo": cockatoos. (additional references) | |
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"Cockatoo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ceccato, cockahoop, cockapoo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cockatoo" (pronounced 'Cock`a*too'): Potoo, too, Wapatoo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-k-o-o-o-t" | |
-3 letters: acock, coact, cocoa. | |
-4 letters: coat, coca, coco, cook, coot, koto, tack, taco, took. | |
-5 letters: act, cat, coo, cot, kat, koa, oak, oat, oca, oka, oot, tao, too. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-k-o-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: cockatoos. | |
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