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- noun Plural form of
cockatoo .
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Examples
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Squatters of "cockatoos," or even of miners; for no one came their way who could possibly help it.
Station Amusements 1871
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High-value birds and reptiles such as cockatoos, turtles and snakes frequently pass through the island nation's borders illegally en route to other countries to be sold as pets, food or for medicine.
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High-value birds and reptiles such as cockatoos, turtles and snakes frequently pass through the island nation's borders illegally en route to other countries to be sold as pets, food or for medicine.
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Animals adorn many a wine bottle in the U.S. Aardvarks, cockatoos, impalas and penguins all have helped make wine less intimidating to Americans, marketers say.
Look-Alike Wines Featuring Look-Alike Marsupials Duke It Out David Kesmodel 2011
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For the most part it was a silent forest, lush and dank, where only occasionally a wood-pigeon cooed or snow - white cockatoos laughed harshly in laborious flight.
Chapter 24 2010
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We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.
Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz Lea Lane 2011
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We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley.
Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz Lea Lane 2011
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He had gone back to Tudor, and hidden with him for a week, living on wild fruits and the few pigeons and cockatoos he had been able to shoot with bow and arrow.
Chapter 23 2010
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From afternoon joggers to tourists hoping to see roaming cockatoos, the Royal Botanic Garden gets four million visitors a year.
In Sydney, Unwanted Guests Urged to Find New Belfry David Winning 2011
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Nine-year-old Willow Smith's hot single "Whip My Hair" has already taken the Internet by storm, created memes galore, and is now being danced to by cockatoos!
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Cockatoo Dances To 'Whip My Hair' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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