toucan

Borrowed from French toucan, borrowed from Old Tupi tukana, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tũkãn, from Proto-Tupian *jɨokãn.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːkən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːˌkæn/

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• Rhymes: -uːkən

toucan (plural toucans)

1. 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;

• hornbill
• toucanet
• Tucana

• uncoat, Canuto, Tucano, co-aunt, acount

Borrowed from Old Tupi tukana.

• IPA^(key): /tu.kɑ̃/

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toucan m (plural toucans)

1. toucan

• → English: toucan
• → Finnish: tukaani

• “toucan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.