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Noun

yellow-tailed black cockatoo ‎(plural yellow-tailed black cockatoos)

1. A large cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 304:

     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.