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toucan
(tuːkən, US -kæn)
Word forms: plural toucans
countable noun
A toucan is a South American bird with a large brightly-coloured beak.
toucan in British English
(ˈtuːkən)
noun
any tropical American arboreal fruit-eating bird of the family Ramphastidae, having a large brightly coloured bill with serrated edges and a bright plumage
Word origin
C16: from French, from Portuguese tucano, from Tupi tucana, probably imitative of its crytoucan in American English
(ˈtuˌkæn; ˈtuˌkɑn; ˈtukən; tuˈkæn; tuˈkɑn)
noun
any of a family (Ramphastidae) of brightly colored, fruit-eating piciform birds of tropical America, distinguished by a very large beak
Word origin
Fr < Port tucano < Tupí tucana: echoic of its cryImage oftoucan
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