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Toucan

noun

Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak.

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"Toucan" Quotes from Famous Books

... swan, duck, ibis sacra cranes, pelicans; and soaring above on the look-out for their prey are fish-eagles and hawks, while the neighbourhood is resonant with the loud chirps of the guinea-fowls calling for their young, with the harsh cry of the toucan, the cooing of the pigeon, and the "to-whit, to-whoo" of the owl. From the long grass in its vicinity also issue the grating and loud cry of the florican, ...

— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

... monkey's sharp eyes detected the nest of a toucan made in the hollow of a thick branch. An opening much like the doorway to a woodpecker's abode led into a spacious cavity on the bottom of which reposed two fat, ugly fledgelings. As yet their bodies were naked excepting only for dark rows of pin feathers bursting through their sheathes; and their ...

— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller

... ready to fly; and in the last figure, one that has given rise to a good deal of discussion. Some think from the circumstance of its having a very large bill, toes pointing behind as well as before, that it represents a toucan, which, if true, would make it a most interesting specimen. But cautious scholars conclude that the "figure is not of sufficient distinctness to identify the original that was before the artist's mind." And therefore it is not wise ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

Words linked to "Toucan" : toucanet, Ramphastidae, piciform bird, family Ramphastidae