toucan
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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From French toucan, itself from Portuguese tucano or Spanish tucán, from Tupian tuka, tukan, tukana, which probably originated as an imitation of its cry.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtuːkən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtuːˌkæn/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) Audio (New Jersey) (file) - Rhymes: -uːkən
Noun[edit]
toucan (plural toucans)
- Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, ch 2:
- The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket;
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Translations[edit]
Ramphastid
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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From Tupian tuka, tukan, tukana, which probably originated as an imitation of its cry.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
toucan m (plural toucans)
Further reading[edit]
- “toucan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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