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Noun: toucan  'too,kan or too-kun
  1. Brilliantly coloured arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
    "The toucan's enormous beak is surprisingly light due to its honeycomb structure"

Derived forms: toucans

Type of: piciform bird

Part of: family Ramphastidae, Ramphastidae

Encyclopedia: Toucan