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Pelican vs Toucan - What's the difference?

pelican | toucan |

As nouns the difference between pelican and toucan

is that pelican is pelican (any of various seabirds of the family pelecanidae) while toucan is any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.

pelican

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
  • A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
  • (chemistry, obsolete) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
  • Derived terms

    * pelican crossing * (pelican spider) * pelicanist

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    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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