Toucan vs Penguin - What's the difference?
toucan | penguin |
Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
* 1924 — , ch 2
Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes , found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
* 1638 , (Thomas Herbert), Some Yeares Travels , I:
(slang) A nun (because of the black and white habit).
(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
(botany) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, .
As nouns the difference between toucan and penguin
is that toucan is any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak while penguin is any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.toucan
English
(wikipedia toucan)Noun
(en noun)- 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 crossingSee also
* hornbill * TucanaAnagrams
* * ----penguin
English
Noun
(en noun)- Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins'' (white-head in ''Welch ) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves [...].