Definitions for toucanˈtu kæn, -kɑn, tuˈkɑn
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
tou•canˈtu kæn, -kɑn, tuˈkɑn(n.)
any of several brightly colored, large billed, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of the New World tropics.
Category: Ornithology
Origin of toucan:
1550–60; < F < Pg tucano < Tupi tucan
Princeton's WordNet
toucan(noun)
brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
Wiktionary
toucan(Noun)
Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
Origin: From toucan or tucán, from a Tupi-Guaraní word.
Webster Dictionary
Toucan(noun)
any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast
Toucan(noun)
a modern constellation of the southern hemisphere
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