
Toucan
WordNet
noun
(1) Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
Quotations
- 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;