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Definition of corella in English: corellanoun kəˈrɛləkəˈrelə A white Australasian cockatoo with some pink feathers on the face, bare blue skin around the eye, and typically a long bill. 凤头鹦鹉 Genus Cacatua, family Cacatuidae (or Psittacidae): three species, in particular the widespread little corella (C. sanguinea) Example sentencesExamples - The local GWN office was inundated with calls on Friday after it was reported a television station had scared off a Perth gun club hired to cull corellas in Dongara.
- Across the river you'll spot (depending on the time of day and tilt of your head) swooping eagles, bulbous 1000-year old boab trees, flocks of noisy corellas or silent stars.
- At this particular waterhole we've got a lot of galahs and corellas around and storms like this kick into life the ecosystems out here.
- We were there too the following dawn when it was so still that the Gorge seemed like a translucent painting, disturbed only by the flurry of noisy corellas fleeing from tree to tree.
- But I thought western corellas would be easy, and western wattlebirds are classified as common.
- More than 4000 corellas have been hanging around Dongara this summer.
- Overhead, meanwhile, a wedge-tailed eagle hovers on the breeze and a posse of corellas flee in a flurry from tree to tree, their bar-room squawk amplified by the walls of the Gorge.
- It's early evening when Nick and I walk down to a bend in the river, and the red tail black cockatoos and little corellas are settling into the gum trees.
OriginLate 19th century: from Wiradhuri. Rhymesa cappella, Arabella, Bella, bestseller, Capella, cellar, Cinderella, citronella, Clarabella, Daniela, Della, dispeller, dweller, Ella, expeller, favela, fella, fellah, feller, Fenella, Floella, foreteller, Heller, impeller, interstellar, Keller, Louella, Mandela, mortadella, mozzarella, Nigella, novella, paella, panatella, patella, predella, propeller, queller, quinella, repeller, rosella, rubella, salmonella, Santiago de Compostela, seller, smeller, speller, Stella, stellar, tarantella, teller, umbrella, Viyella Definition of corella in US English: corellanounkəˈrelə A white Australasian cockatoo with some pink feathers on the face, bare blue skin around the eye, and typically a long bill. 凤头鹦鹉 Genus Cacatua, family Cacatuidae (or Psittacidae): three species, in particular the widespreadlittle corella (C. sanguinea) Example sentencesExamples - Across the river you'll spot (depending on the time of day and tilt of your head) swooping eagles, bulbous 1000-year old boab trees, flocks of noisy corellas or silent stars.
- At this particular waterhole we've got a lot of galahs and corellas around and storms like this kick into life the ecosystems out here.
- It's early evening when Nick and I walk down to a bend in the river, and the red tail black cockatoos and little corellas are settling into the gum trees.
- Overhead, meanwhile, a wedge-tailed eagle hovers on the breeze and a posse of corellas flee in a flurry from tree to tree, their bar-room squawk amplified by the walls of the Gorge.
- The local GWN office was inundated with calls on Friday after it was reported a television station had scared off a Perth gun club hired to cull corellas in Dongara.
- More than 4000 corellas have been hanging around Dongara this summer.
- But I thought western corellas would be easy, and western wattlebirds are classified as common.
- We were there too the following dawn when it was so still that the Gorge seemed like a translucent painting, disturbed only by the flurry of noisy corellas fleeing from tree to tree.
OriginLate 19th century: from Wiradhuri. |