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Definition of Pink cockatoo
1. Noun. White Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pink Cockatoo
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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