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Image:Keel-billed toucan, costa rica.jpg|thumb|A toucan

Etymology
From a Tupi-Guaraní word.

Pronunciation
italbrac|RP IPA|/�tu�k�n/
italbrac|US IPA|/�tu��kæn/
audio|en-us-toucan.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|u�k�n

Noun
en-noun

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

Quotations
1924 � w:Herman Melville|Herman Melville, s:Billy Budd|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;

Derived terms
toucan crossing

Translations

Finnish: tukaani
French: #French|toucan m
German: Tukan m
Greek: �ο�κάνα
Hungarian: tukán
Ido: tukano
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Persian: FAchar|ت�کا� (tukân)
Polish: tukan m
Portuguese: tucano m
Russian: ��кан (tukán) m
Spanish: tucán m

See also
hornbill
Tucana

Category:Birds

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