Crossword-Solution: COCKATOO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Cockatoo | n. | A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “COCKATOO”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Criminal lookout, in Aussie slang | 1 answer |
| Big crested parrot | 1 answer |
| white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region | 1 answer |
| Villain in the animated film "Rio" | 1 answer |
| Parrot with a showy crest | 1 answer |
| Parrot relative | 1 answer |
| Parakeet's cousin | 1 answer |
| Large, white parrot | 1 answer |
| Large, noisy parrot | 1 answer |
| Crested parrot | 1 answer |
| Bird (a type of parrot) | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN squatter | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN farmer | 2 answers |
| kakatoe | 2 answers |
| galah | 2 answers |
| Showy parrot | 2 answers |
| Parakeet cousin | 2 answers |
| Noisy parrot | 2 answers |
| INDIAN parrot | 2 answers |
| EAST Indies bird | 3 answers |
| Type of parrot | 3 answers |
| Loud bird | 6 answers |
| CRESTED BUTTE LOCALE | 10 answers |
| CRESTED BUTTE | 10 answers |
| CRESTED LARGELY BLUE BIRD | 10 answers |
| bird genus parrot | 11 answers |
| bird Noisy | 11 answers |
| CAGE BIRD | 11 answers |
| Squatter? | 14 answers |
| Crested bird | 15 answers |
| Australian parrot. | 23 answers |
| Farmer | 55 answers |
| Parrot | 57 answers |
| Australian bird | 60 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "COCKATOO"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
11 +1
New Suggestion for "COCKATOO"
Related word tools
Sentences with COCKATOO (5)
There came a stranger -- a 'Cockatoo' -- The word means farmer, as all men know Who dwell in the land where the kangaroo Barks loud at dawn, and the white-eyed crow Uplifts his song on the stock-yard fence As he watches the lambkins passing hence.
Sometimes a youngster would timidly ask Greenhide Billy about the 'terra incognita': “What sort of a place is it, Billy--how big are the properties? How many acres had you in the place you were on?” “Acres be d----d!” Billy would scornfully reply; “hear him talking about acres! D'ye think we were blanked cockatoo selectors! Out there we reckon country by the hundred miles.
Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice.
The pink-crested cockatoo started, on his appearance, into clumsy activity and began to climb laboriously up and down his perch, calling “Joanna” with indistinct loudness and a persistent screech that prolonged the last syllable of the name as if in a peal of insane laughter.
The chiefs on these occasions decked themselves with gorgeous cockatoo feathers, and painted their bodies with red and yellow ochre and other glaring pigments, each tribe having its own distinguishing marks.
Quotes with COCKATOO (2)
The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).