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Definition: Toucan |
ToucanNoun1. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toucan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
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Toucans
Keel-billed ToucanScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Ramphastidae Genera Aulacorhynchus
Pteroglossus
Baillonius
Andigena
Selenidera
RamphastosThe toucans are tropical near passerine birds from South America. They are brightly marked and have enormous colourful bills.
Toucans are fructivorous (fruit-eating), but will take insects and other small prey. They are arboreal and nest in tree holes laying 2-4 white eggs.
Toucans do not migrate
This group is related to other Piciformes as below:
Order Piciformes
The last two families are sometimes separated as the order Gabuliformes
- Family Picidae, (woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks
- Family Capitonidae, (barbets)
- Family Ramphastidae, (toucans)
- Family Indicatoridae, (honeyguides)
- Galbulidae, (jacamars)
- Family Bucconidae, (puffbirds etc)
Species list
External links: Toucans were used to advertise Guinness stout, and many collectables such as postcards and models with Guinness toucans on may be found.
- Emerald Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus prasinus
- Groove-billed Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus sulcatus
- Chestnut-tipped Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus derbianus
- Crimson-rumped Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus haematopygus
- Yellow-browed Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus huallagae
- Blue-banded Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis
- Lettered Aracari, Pteroglossus inscriptus
- Green Aracari, Pteroglossus viridis
- Red-necked Aracari, Pteroglossus bitorquatus
- Ivory-billed Aracari, Pteroglossus azara
- Brown-mandibled Aracari, Pteroglossus mariae
- Chestnut-eared Aracari, Pteroglossus castanotis
- Black-necked Aracari, Pteroglossus aracari
- Collared Aracari, Pteroglossus torquatus
- Fiery-billed Aracari, Pteroglossus frantzii
- Stripe-billed Aracari, Pteroglossus sanguineus
- Pale-mandibled Aracari, Pteroglossus erythropygius
- Many-banded Aracari, Pteroglossus pluricinctus
- Curl-crested Aracari, Pteroglossus beauharnaesii
- Saffron Toucanet, Baillonius bailloni
- Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan, Andigena laminirostris
- Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucan, Andigena hypoglauca
- Hooded Mountain-Toucan, Andigena cucullata
- Black-billed Mountain-Toucan, Andigena nigrirostris
- Yellow-eared Toucanet, Selenidera spectabilis
- Golden-collared Toucanet, Selenidera reinwardtii
- Tawny-tufted Toucanet, Selenidera nattereri
- Guianan Toucanet, Selenidera culik
- Spot-billed Toucanet, Selenidera maculirostris
- Gould's Toucanet, Selenidera gouldii
- Keel-billed Toucan, Ramphastos sulfuratus
- Choco Toucan, Ramphastos brevis
- Citron-throated Toucan, Ramphastos citreolaemus
- Yellow-ridged Toucan, Ramphastos culminatus
- Channel-billed Toucan, Ramphastos vitellinus
- Red-breasted Toucan, Ramphastos dicolorus
- Chestnut-mandibled Toucan, Ramphastos swainsonii
- Black-mandibled Toucan, Ramphastos ambiguus
- Red-billed Toucan, Ramphastos tucanus
- Cuvier's Toucan, Ramphastos cuvieri
- Toco Toucan Ramphastos toco
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toucan."
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A toucan crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing found in the UK that also allows bicycles to cross. Since two (both pedestrians and cyclists) can cross together, the name toucan was chosen.Toucan crossings are normally 4 metres (13 feet) wide, instead of the 2.8 metre (9 feet) width of a Pelican or Puffin. A "green bicyle" is displayed next to the "green man" when cyclists and pedestrians are permitted to cross.
The pedestrian / cyclist signal lights may be on the near side of the crossing (like a Puffin), or on the opposide side of the road (like a Pelican).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toucan crossing."
Crosswords: Toucan |
| English words defined with "toucan": Ariel gazelle ♦ Preacher bird ♦ Serratirostral ♦ Toco, Toncanet, toucanet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Toucan" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (toucan). |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Jungle; monkey; bird; toucan; . |
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| "Toucan" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toucan" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "toucan": Toucan crossing. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "toucan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الطوقان طائر. (various references) | |
Dutch | toekan. (various references) | |
Esperanto | tukano, ramfasto. (various references) | |
French | toucan. (various references) | |
German | tukan. (various references) | |
Greek | οπωροφάγο πτηνό με μέγα ράμφο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tukánmadár. (various references) | |
Italian | tucano. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 大嘴 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おおはし. (various references) | |
Manx | parrad stronnagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oucantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tucano. (various references) | |
Russian | тукан. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tukan. (various references) | |
Spanish | tucán. (various references) | |
Turkish | tukan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тукан. (various references) | |
Yucatec | piitoreal. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Baillonius bailloni, Pteroglossus sulfuratus, Pteroglossus toco, Pteroglossus tucanus, Pteroglossus vitellinus, Ramphastos dicolorus, Rhamphastidae, Semnornis ramphastinus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toucan": toucans. (additional references) | |
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"Toucan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Moucani, Okucani, Ouca, oucin, Roushan, Tijuca, toarcian, tocan, Toluca, Toolan, torcan, toscano, touc, touce, touci, Toufah, tourain, Tucana, tucann, tucuman, tuvan, Tyukin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "toucan" (pronounced 'Tou"can'): AEsthetican, Antelucan, Cancan, Cooncan, Dellacruscan, Flucan, Jamaican, Majorcan, Molluscan, Moroccan, Oscan, Spheniscan, Vulcan. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: canto, cotan, count, octan. | |
-2 letters: aunt, auto, cant, coat, nota, taco, tuna, unco, unto. | |
-3 letters: act, ant, can, cat, con, cot, cut, not, nut, oat, oca, out, tan, tao, tau, ton, tun, uta. | |
-4 letters: an, at, na, no, nu, on, ta, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: account, auction, caution, conatus, courant, toucans. | |
+2 letters: accounts, aconitum, auctions, calutron, cautions, cocoanut, continua, cotquean, couchant, countian, courante, couranto, courants, occupant, oceanaut, osculant, outdance, outrance, turncoat, uncoated. | |
+3 letters: abduction, accounted, aconitums, actuation, adduction, auctioned, autogenic, autonomic, calutrons, cantaloup, catamount, causation, cautioned, ceanothus, coagulant, cocoanuts, conjugant, conjugate, consulate, contagium, continual, contumacy, coruscant, cosmonaut, cotqueans, countable, countably, countians, courantes, courantos, courtesan, custodian, cutaneous, education, furcation, gluconate, headcount, incaution, incubator, inoculant, inoculate, mucronate, nectarous, nocturnal, nucleator, obscurant, occupants, oceanauts, outacting, outdanced, outdances, outfacing, outpacing, outracing, outrances, raconteur, suctional, suctorian, tenacious, turncoats, uncoating, undercoat. | |
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