HBAan Australian parrot with a lot of feathers on the top of its head 〔澳大利亚〕凤头鹦鹉，葵花鹦鹉
Examples from the Corpus
cockatoo• There are seagulls, he says, and terns and storks and cockatoos.• Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands.• There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.• Some of them had orange- or blue-streaked hair, making them look like cockatoos.• On the wall alongside us was a tiled, tropical landscape of pastel cockatoos and parrots.• Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches.
Origincockatoo
(1600-1700)Dutchkaketoe, from Malaykakatua, from kakak“older brother or sister” + tua“old”