Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A constellation in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere near Indus and Hydrus, containing the Small Magellanic Cloud.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A southern constellation, the Toucan, south of the Phœnix, made by Petrus Theodori in the fifteenth century.
  • noun In ornithology, same as Ramphastos.

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  • proper noun astronomy A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Tucana, from tucana, toucan, from Tupí tucána.]

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Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From later Latin tucana, a "toucan".

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Examples

  • Northrop Grumman came calling in summer 2005, and Lukaczyk says it has already deployed Tucana technology.

    Beltway Money Woman: Laura Lukaczyk Surviving The Tech Wreck: A Beltway VC's Tale 2006

  • He and Guy managed Gartmore's $2.3 billion Alphagen Capella fund since it started in 1999 and the $828 million Alphagen Tucana Fund since its inception in 2005. award for 2009's best European Equity Fund of more than $500 million from EuroHedge, an industry publication that stages an annual black - tie awards dinner for more than 800 fund managers at Mayfair's Grosvenor House Hotel.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • The Alphagen Tucana Fund, which Rambourg runs with Guy, rose 42 percent last year and 11 percent annually over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • (PhysOrg. com) -- Today ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan).

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Rambourg, who also co-manages the $828 million Alphagen Tucana Fund, and a former Gartmore European equity analyst were fined by Italy's stock market regulator for abusing privileged information about Banca Italease SpA stock in 2006, according to a statement posted on the watchdog's Web site last week.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • He and Guy managed Gartmore's $2.3 billion Alphagen Capella fund since it started in 1999 and the $828 million Alphagen Tucana Fund since its inception in 2005. award for 2009's best European Equity Fund of more than $500 million from EuroHedge, an industry publication that stages an annual black - tie awards dinner for more than 800 fund managers at Mayfair's Grosvenor House Hotel.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • The Alphagen Tucana Fund, which Rambourg runs with Guy, rose 42 percent last year and 11 percent annually over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • Rambourg, who also co-manages the $828 million Alphagen Tucana Fund, and a former Gartmore European equity analyst were fined by Italy's stock market regulator for abusing privileged information about Banca Italease SpA stock in 2006, according to a statement posted on the watchdog's Web site last week.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • Rambourg, who also co-manages the $828 million Alphagen Tucana Fund, and a former Gartmore European equity analyst were fined by Italy's stock market regulator for abusing privileged information about Banca Italease SpA stock in 2006, according to a statement posted on the watchdog's Web site last week.

    Bloomberg 2010

  • The Alphagen Tucana Fund, which Rambourg runs with Guy, rose 42 percent last year and 11 percent annually over the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    Bloomberg 2010

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