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toucan
/ˈtuːˌkæn/
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What does toucan mean?
noun
- Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
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If they kill a Toucan, it is considered an important event, and the bird is made to serve as a meal for a score or more persons.
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.
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Among their sculptures, in Ohio, we find accurate representations of the lamantine, manatee, or sea-cow--found to-day on the shores of Florida, Brazil, and Central America--and of the toucan, a tropical and almost exclusively South American bird.
That is to say, a civilized race 'began to divide up the heavens into constellations, to which they gave the names of the Great and Little Bear, the Wolf, the Serpent, the Dragon, the Eagle, the Swan, the Crane, the Peacock, the Toucan, the Crow, etc.; some of which names they retain among ourselves to this day.