Crossword clues for toucan
toucan
- Tropical American bird
- Big-beaked bird
- Froot Loops mascot
- Sam is one
- Fruit Loops mascot
- Bright-billed bird
- Rainforest bird
- One with a big food bill
- Froot Loops spokesbird Sam
- Froot Loops mascot, e.g
- Froot Loops mascot Sam, for one
- Froot Loops box sight
- Flyer with a colorful billing?
- Flier with a large bill
- Colourful tropical bird
- Colorful fruit-eater
- Bird with a ludicrous bill
- Bird with a large brightly-coloured bill
- Bird with a large brightly-coloured beak
- Bird that was once a mascot for Guinness
- Big-billed tropical bird
- Tropical flier
- Bird on a Kellogg's Froot Loops box
- Bird on a Kellogg's cereal box
- Bird with a colorful bill
- Amazon flier
- Bird on a Froot Loops box
- Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
- Big-billed bird of the tropics
- Froot Loops bird
- Colorful bird with a big bill
- Can-can broadcast leaving one with large bill
- Splash out on buttocks in LA and one'll have a big bill
- South American native's mostly feeling affection on vacation
- Nearly fondle a northern bird
- Fruit-eating bird
- Bird with a colourful beak
- Bird to start to undo container
- Bird out at sea has ability
- Bird out at sea ahead of vessel
- Tropical bird also picked up tin
- Tropical bird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toucan \Tou"can\ (t[=oo]"k[a^]n; 277), n. [F., fr. Pg. tucano; from Brazilian name. ]
(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastid[ae]. 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.
(Astronom.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bright-colored bird of South America, 1560s, from French toucan (1550s) and Spanish tucan; from Tupi (Brazil) tuka, tukana, said to be probably imitative of its call.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
WordNet
n. brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
Wikipedia
A Toucan is a brightly marked tropical bird with a colorful bill.
Toucan may also refer to:
- Aero Adventure Toucan, an American home built aircraft design
- Canaero Toucan ultralight aircraft
- Toucan crossing, a road crossing for pedestrians and cyclists in the UK
- Tucan Manager, a download manager for hosting services
Toucans are members of the family Ramphastidae of near passerine birds from the Neotropics. The Ramphastidae family is most closely related to the American barbets. They are brightly marked and have large often-colorful bills. The family includes five genera and about forty different species. The name of this bird group is derived from the Tupi word tukana, via Portuguese. The family includes toucans, aracaris and toucanets; more distant relatives include various families of barbets and woodpeckers in the suborder Pici.
Usage examples of "toucan".
The variety of animals was impressive: ocelot, toucan, marmoset, tamarin, anteater, even snakes and lizards, and oddly enough one jungle trout.
The drone of cicadas, the mournful cry of toucans, the rustle of a coatimundi in dry leaves, all returned to normal for this time of day and year.
Modern bird species vary greatly in their ecology and lifestyle, from aerial fliers to terrestrial runners and marine divers, from tiny hummingbirds to giant extinct elephant birds, and from penguins nesting in the Antarctic winter to toucans breeding in tropical rainforests.
I'd seen keel-billed toucans silhouetted in flight the afternoon we arrived in Belize, but this morning we got good views of them in all their size and color.
They became excited when our guides pointed out the toucans, and we let them borrow our binoculars to watch those huge, brilliant birds.
The flags were intricately woven of the feathers' natural colors: egret feathers for the white grounds of the flags, and for the designs the various reds of macaws and cardinals and parakeets, the various blues of jays and herons, the yellows of toucans and tanagers.
It was also the northernmost range of the parrots, macaws, toucans, and other tropical birds of resplendent plumage.