Definition of Pink cockatoo

1. Noun. White Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage.

Exact synonyms: Kakatoe Leadbeateri
Generic synonyms: Cockatoo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pink Cockatoo

pinites
pinitol
pinitols
pink-and-white everlasting
pink-collar
pink-eye
pink-eyes
pink-slipped
pink 'un
pink bollworm
pink calla
pink cigars
pink cockatoo (current term)
pink disease
pink disease fungus
pink elephant
pink elephants
pink family
pink films
pink fivecorner
pink fritillary
pink gin
pink gins
pink jersey
pink lady

Literary usage of Pink cockatoo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Beautiful Birds in Far-off Lands: Their Haunts and Homes by Mary Kirby, Elizabeth Kirby (1873)
"He is called the Tricolor- crested Cockatoo, and also the pink cockatoo. When his crest is set up it is very beautiful, and looks like rays of crimson, ..."

2. The Home Maker by Jane Cunningham Croly (1889)
"PET LORE FOR PET LOVERS. pink cockatoo, who will be most decorative in effect, and rarely trouble you with a sound. Or get a larger mansion of gilt, ..."

3. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"pink cockatoo, Colonists of Swan River. Cacatua leadbeateri, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. pl. 2. This beautiful species of Cockatoo enjoys a wide ..."

4. The Story of the Exposition: Being the Official History of the International by Frank Morton Todd (1921)
"At the southerly end of the Pavilion was an aviary containing some rare birds found only in the Australasian region—the white cockatoo, the pink cockatoo or ..."

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