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Webster 1913 Edition

Toucan

Tou′can

(toō′kăn; 277)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. Pg.
tucano
; from Brazilian name. ]
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to
Ramphastos
,
Pteroglossus
, and allied genera of the family
Ramphastidae
. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
2.
(Astronom.)
A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

Webster 1828 Edition

Toucan

TOU'CAN

,
Noun.
A fowl of the genus Ramphastos; also, a constellation of nine small stars.

Definition 2024

toucan

toucan

English

A toucan

Noun

toucan ‎(plural toucans)

  1. Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
    • 1924 — Herman Melville, Billy Budd, ch 2
      The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket;

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French

Etymology

From Tupian tuka, tukan, tukana, which probably originated as an imitation of its cry.

Noun

toucan m ‎(plural toucans)

  1. toucan

Etymology

From French toucan or Spanish tucán, from Tupian tuka, tukan, tukana, which probably originated as an imitation of its cry.

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