Toucan vs Robin - What's the difference?
toucan | robin |
Any of various neotropical frugivorous birds from the family Ramphastidae, with a large colorful beak.
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Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
# A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
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# An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
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)- 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
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English
(wikipedia robin)Noun
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