white cockatoo
English
Noun
white cockatoo (plural white cockatoos)
- Any of various cockatoos having predominantly white plumage, especially Cacatua alba, of Indonesia, and the sulphur-crested cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, of Australia. [from 18th c.]
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 92:
- Even flocks of white cockatoos flying in a cloud along the beach like an angel with flapping wings, raucously cried for him.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 92: