Toucan
WordNet

noun


(1)   Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
WiktionaryText

Noun



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

Quotations

  • 1924Herman 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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