toucan

tou·can  (tkn, -kän, t-kn, -kän)

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.

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[French, from Portuguese tucano or Spanish tucán, both from Tupi tucano, type of bird.]

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toucan [ˈtuːkən]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any tropical American arboreal fruit-eating bird of the family Ramphastidae, having a large brightly coloured bill with serrated edges and a bright plumage

[from French, from Portuguese tucano, from Tupi tucana, probably imitative of its cry]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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 toucanet - small toucan

Translations

toucan [ˈtuːkən] N → tucán m

toucan [ˈtuːkən] n → toucan m

toucan

n → Tukan m, → Pfefferfresser m

toucan [ˈtuːkən] n → tucano

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toucan [ˈtuːkən] n → tucano