COCKATOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cockatoo mean? 

• COCKATOO (noun)
  The noun COCKATOO has 1 sense:

1. white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds

  Familiarity information: COCKATOO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKATOO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

White or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cockatoo" is a kind of...):

parrot (usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cockatoo"):

Cacatua galerita; Kakatoe galerita; sulphur-crested cockatoo (white cockatoo with a yellow erectile crest)

Kakatoe leadbeateri; pink cockatoo (white Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage)

Holonyms ("cockatoo" is a member of...):

Cacatua; genus Cacatua; genus Kakatoe; Kakatoe (a genus of Psittacidae)

 Context examples 

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)