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 →

2) Most cockatoos live wild in Australia and nearby islands; many are white, pink, grey or black. tree →

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 →
• A flock of white cockatoos landed on the school oval in Sydney. tree →
• Our neighbour's cockatoo can say «hello» and «good boy». tree →
• Cockatoos crack nuts with their strong curved beaks. tree →
• Some pet cockatoos live longer than their owners. tree →
• The black cockatoo has red feathers in its tail. tree →
• In class we compared a cockatoo with a parrot from South America. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cockatoo» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.