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toucan

[ too-kan, -kahn, too-kahn ]

noun

  1. any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.
  2. Toucan, Astronomy. the constellation Tucana.


toucan

/ ˈtuːkən /

noun

  1. any tropical American arboreal fruit-eating bird of the family Ramphastidae, having a large brightly coloured bill with serrated edges and a bright plumage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of toucan1

First recorded in 1550–60; from French, from Portuguese tucano, from Tupi tucan (imitative of its cry)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of toucan1

C16: from French, from Portuguese tucano, from Tupi tucana, probably imitative of its cry
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Example Sentences

That immersion in nature — squawking toucans and all — sparked his fascination with science and evolution.

“One day I wore a multicolored dress and someone asked if I was trying to be Toucan Sam,” she said.

Its topmost branch, when naked with age or dried by accident, is the favourite resort of the toucan.

I believe the bird is a kind of toucan or hornbill, but the people here call it a crane.

At 301 our mess table, over the dishes of toucan and parrot supplied by the camp hunters, they rallied each other boisterously.

If the extraordinary form and size of the bill expose the toucan to ridicule, its colours make it amends.

Here, also, the forests are adorned with the gay plumage of the red and blue macaws, as also by a toucan with a yellow tail.

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