Definition of toucan Toucan

tou•can

We found 8 definitions of toucan from 7 different sources.

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Noun

Plural: toucans

toucan - brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
  piciform bird any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood
  family ramphastidae, ramphastidae toucans
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • toucan (n.)
    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.
  • toucan (n.)
    A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

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  • toucan
    A bird with a large colorful beak, living in the tropics and belonging to the family Ramphastidae.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • toucan
    tōō-kan′, or tōō′-, n. a genus of South American Picarian birds, with an immense beak. [Fr.,—Braz.]

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  • Toucan are familiy Ramphastidae, is a South American bird with a huge beak, This social bird lives in small flocks in lowland rainforests. It is a poor flyer, and moves mostly by hopping around trees. Toucans roost in holes in trees.

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