toucan
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French toucan, borrowed from Old Tupi tukana, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tũkãn, from Proto-Tupian *jɨokãn.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtuːkən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtuːˌkæn/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (New Jersey): (file) - Rhymes: -uːkən
Noun
[edit]toucan (plural toucans)
- 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;
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Ramphastid
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi tukana.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]toucan m (plural toucans)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “toucan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- English terms derived from Proto-Tupian
- English terms derived from Old Tupi
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/uːkən
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Piciforms
- French terms derived from Old Tupi
- French terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- French terms derived from Proto-Tupian
- French terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Piciforms