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Macaw vs Toucan - What's the difference?

macaw | toucan |

As nouns the difference between macaw and toucan

is that macaw is any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage while toucan is any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.

macaw

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various parrots of the genera Ara'', ''Anodorhynchus'', ''Cyanopsitta'', ''Orthopsittaca'', ''Primolius'' and ''Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.
  • toucan

    English

    (wikipedia toucan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
  • * 1924 — , ch 2
  • The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket;

    Derived terms

    * toucan crossing

    See also

    * hornbill * Tucana

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