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Toucan vs Robin - What's the difference?

toucan | robin |

As nouns the difference between toucan and robin

is that toucan is any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak while robin is various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly family: Eopsaltridae), typically with a red breast.

As a proper noun Robin is

a given name derived from Germanic.

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

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    robin

    English

    (wikipedia robin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
  • # A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • # An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
  • Usage notes

    The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.

    Synonyms

    * (all senses) redbreast, robin redbreast * (the European robin)

    Derived terms

    * robin redbreast * round-robin