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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various tropical American birds of the family Ramphastidae, having brightly colored plumage and a very large bill and feeding mainly on small fruits.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of numerous species of picarian birds of the genus Rhamphastos or family Rhamphastidæ (which see for technical characters). Toucans are, on the average, large for their order, and are noted for the enormous size of the beak, which, with their habit of carrying the tail turned up over the back, and their bold coloration, gives them a striking appearance. They are characteristic of the Neotropical region, where they feed chiefly on soft fruits, and are credited with a sort of regurgitation of their food suggestive of rumination. They nest in holes. Some of the larger species, the toucans most properly so called, are 2 feet long, with a bill of 6 or 8 inches. Most are smaller, as the aracaris and toucanets, of the genera Pteroglossus and Selenidera. Also tocan. See cuts under aracari and Ramphastos.
  2. n. A small constellation of the southern hemisphere.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. 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. n. (Astronom.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak

Etymologies

  1. From French toucan or Spanish tucán, from Tupian tuka, tukan, tukana, which probably originated as an imitation of its cry. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Portuguese tucano or Spanish tucán, both from Tupi tucano, type of bird. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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