wyla

wyla

English

Etymology

Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language; compare Awabakal waiila (“black cockatoo”).

Noun

wyla

1. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.
   • 1826, N.A. Vigors and Thomas Horsefield, “A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society‎, volume 15, page 273:

     The natives tell me of another kind of Cockatoo (besides Wyla and Geringora), which they call Carat’. It is very shy.

   • 1952, Encyclopædia Britannica, A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 912:

     The dark-plumaged funereal cockatoo or wyla (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is another Australian species.

See also

• Yellow-tailed black cockatoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calyptorhynchus funereus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Wyla in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Lancelot Threlkeld (1892) An Australian Language as Spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba, Or Lake Macquarie‎

Anagrams

• waly, y'awl, yawl