TOUCAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toucan mean? 

• TOUCAN (noun)
  The noun TOUCAN has 1 sense:

1. brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak

  Familiarity information: TOUCAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUCAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("toucan" is a kind of...):

piciform bird (any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "toucan"):

toucanet (small toucan)

Holonyms ("toucan" is a member of...):

family Ramphastidae; Ramphastidae (toucans)