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cockatoo
  1. A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot.
  2. (slang, obsolete) A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.
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    1. “The cockatoo fluttered its vibrant wings, displaying its brilliant plumage as it playfully perched on the branch.”
      “It was then that cartoonists began caricaturing him as a cockatoo.”
      “Her teeth were white as the wing of the sulphur-crested cockatoo, and that look showed them as no other.”
cockatiel
  1. Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest. Comes in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied. Native to Australia but most known in aviculture.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “My son's cockatiel eats like a bird, so our stock of millet and black-oil sunflower seeds rarely needs replenishing.”
      “Some of the other birds you get to see here are the African parrot, guineafowl, diamond dove, lutinos, cockatiel and ducks.”
      “Like other cockatoos, the cockatiel has a retractable crest which it raises up and down in response to alarm, excitement and other emotions.”
cockateel
  1. Archaic form of cockatiel.
cockateels
  1. plural of cockateel
cockatiels
cockatoos
  1. plural of cockatoo
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Active fast flying lorikeets and big birds such as cockatoos and macaws should be in a large flight aviary.”
      “Like other cockatoos, the cockatiel has a retractable crest which it raises up and down in response to alarm, excitement and other emotions.”
      “She and her husband reside in Arizona with their two cockatoos, two conures and a Chihuahua.”
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