Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English

Syllables: yel-low--tailed black- -cock-a-too
IPA

48

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

8

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.

Example Sentences

"Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest."
"[T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children."

Inflected Forms

yellow-tailed black cockatoos (plural)

Questions

What does yellow-tailed black cockatoo mean?: A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.

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