gang-gang
(Redirected from gang-gang cockatoo)
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gang-gang (plural gang-gangs)
- A kind of cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum).
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 433:
- He carried the two gang-gang cockatoos in a ferret box.
Translations
[edit]Callocephalon fimbriatum
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References
[edit]- Dixon, R. M. W., Bruce Moore, W. S. Ramson, Mandy Thomas (2006) Australian Aboriginal Words in English: Their Origin and Meaning, 2nd ed. edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85