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TOUCAN
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak
Classified under:
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)