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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 tou·can /ˈtuˌkæn, ˌkɑn, tuˈ/
 巨嘴鳥,巨嘴鳥座

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tou·can n.
 1. Zool. Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae.  They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself.  Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.
 2. Astronom. A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 toucan
      n : brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical
          America having a very large thin-walled beak