wyla

English

Etymology

Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language; compare Awabakal waiila (black cockatoo).

Noun

wyla

  1. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.
    • 1826, N.A. Vigors and Thomas Horsefield, “A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society”, in Transactions of the Linnean Society, volume 15, page 273:
      The natives tell me of another kind of Cockatoo (besides Wyla and Geringora), which they call Carat’. It is very shy.
    • 1952, Encyclopædia Britannica, A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 912:
      The dark-plumaged funereal cockatoo or wyla (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is another Australian species.

See also

References

  • Wyla in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • Lancelot Threlkeld (1892) An Australian Language as Spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba, Or Lake Macquarie

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