sulphur-crested cockatoo

English

Alternative forms

• sulfur-crested cockatoo

Noun

sulphur-crested cockatoo (plural sulphur-crested cockatoos)

1. A large Australian cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, with a yellow erectile crest. [from 19th c.]
   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 223:

     [A] mob of sulphur-crested cockatoos took roost above her inspiration of Wordsworth's latest rewriting of The Prelude […] .

Translations

Cacatua galerita

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葵花鳳頭鸚鵡／葵花凤头鹦鹉 (kuíhuā fèngtóu yīngwǔ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: grote geelkuifkaketoe (nl) m
• Finnish: kultatöyhtökakadu (fi)
• Polish: kakadu żółtoczuba
• Russian: большо́й желтохо́хлый какаду́ m (bolʹšój želtoxóxlyj kakadú)
• Tiwi: pimirntiki, pimirtiki, pimitiki, pumurntiki, yikiyikini, yinkaka, pipingilirri
• Turkish: kükürt taçlı kakadu