"black cockatoo" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: black cockatoos [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} black cockatoo (plural black cockatoos)
  1. Any of various species of Australian cockatoo of the genera Calyptorhynchus and Zanda having mainly black plumage; sometimes also the great black cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus. Categories (lifeform): Cockatoos Translations (black cockatoo, particularly of the genus Calyptorhynchus): raafkaketoe [masculine] (Dutch)

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