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# cockatoo

«cockatoo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large parrot with a crest of feathers on its head that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cockatoo, cockatoos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cockatoo is a large parrot with a crest of feathers on its head that it can raise and lower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#m1)

2) Most cockatoos live wild in Australia and nearby islands; many are white, pink, grey or black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons cockatoos appear as Australian birds, as examples of parrots, and in talk about pets that live a very long time. In Australian stories a flock of screeching cockatoos is a normal backyard sound. Phrases: «sulphur-crested cockatoo», «pink cockatoo (galah)», «a flock of cockatoos».

### examples

- A cockatoo raised its yellow crest and screeched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x1)
- A flock of white cockatoos landed on the school oval in Sydney. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x2)
- Our neighbour's cockatoo can say «hello» and «good boy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x3)
- Cockatoos crack nuts with their strong curved beaks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x4)
- Some pet cockatoos live longer than their owners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x5)
- The black cockatoo has red feathers in its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x6)
- In class we compared a cockatoo with a parrot from South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/#x7)

### note

Countable: one cockatoo, two cockatoos. Stress on the last part: cock-a-TOO. A cockatoo is a kind of parrot, but not every parrot is a cockatoo (cockatoos have crests). Pet cockatoos need a lot of attention and can be very loud.

### In the corpora

- [Big parrots such as macaws and cockatoos can live over sixty years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cockatoo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockatoo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.