corella
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Definition of corella
: any of various mostly white, relatively small cockatoos (genus Cacatua) chiefly of Australia: such as
a
: a long-billed cockatoo (Cacatua tenuirostris) often kept as a cage bird and readily trained to talk
— called also
long-billed corella
b : little corella
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