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• Cockatoo

  ·noun A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much cur...

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• cockatoo

  I. n. 1) Bird-name. The word is Malay, Kakatua. (`O.E.D.') The varieties are – – Banksian Cockatoo...

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• orchis

  orchis, is, f., = ὄρχις I A plant , a kind of olive , Col. 5, 8, 4; id. Arb. 17, 3; Pall. Febr...

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• Orchis

  ·noun Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an <<Orchid>>. II. Orchis ·noun A genus of endo...

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• cockatoo fence

  n. fence erected by smallfarmers. 1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. xxii. p. 155: «...

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• cockatoo bush

  n. i.q. native currant (q.v). ...

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• ant-orchis

  n. an Australian and Tasmanianorchid, Chiloglottis gunnii, Lind. ...

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• fly-orchis

  n. name applied in Tasmania to theorchid, Prasophyllum patens, R. Br. ...

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• helmet-orchis

  n. This English name is appliedin Australia to the orchid Pterostylis cucullata, R. Br. 1852. Mrs....

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• spider-orchis

  n. name given in Tasmaniato the Orchid Caladenia pulcherrima, F. v. M. ...

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• spotted-orchis

  n. Tasmanian name for theOrchid Dipodium punctatum, R. Br. ...

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