tucan

• tugan, tuza

Native to Mexico, from Nahuatl tuçan, togan.

• (Received Pronunciation, older US) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːkən/

tucan (plural tucans)

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) The hispid pocket gopher (Heterogeomys hispidus).
   • 1862, Sir John Richardson, The Museum of Natural History: Being a Popular Account of the Structure, Habits, and Classification of the Various Departments of the Animal Kingdom:

     THE TUCAN, OR MEXICAN GOPHER (G. mexicanus, (Licht.) Rich.) is a Mexican species, with the coloration much […]

   • 1885, Frederick William True, A Provisional List of the Mammals of North and Central America, and the West Indian Islands:

     Geomys mexicanus, (Licht.) Baird. Tucan. Mexican Pocket-Gopher. Mexico. / Geomys hispidus, Le Conte. Quackil. Central American Pocket-Gopher  […]

• “tucan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “tucan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Cantu, UNTAC, cutan

Borrowed from Italian tucano.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈkan/
• Hyphenation: tu‧can

tucan m (plural tucani)

1. toucan