Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small toucans of the genera Aulacorhynchus, Selenidera, and Pteroglossus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the smaller toucans, as any species of Selenidera. S. maculirostris is a good example.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small toucan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several small
toucans , of the genusAulacorhynchus , that live in theAndes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small toucan
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Examples
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The park is the northern limit for the distribution of a variety of scarce species and a new location for species such as yellow-browed toucanet Aulacorhynchus huallagae (LR).
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The toucanet was momentarily forgotten though, when an
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Elegant Euphonia at first but the toucanet made things alright by flying over and posing behind the euphonia's location and allowing me to get the shot above (to say nothing of a whole bunch more, look for a gallery soon).
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Bird species diversity is highest in the humid forests and the park is very important for the conservation of Amazon species of conservation concern, such as red-throated piping-guan Aburria cujubi, Gould’s toucanet Selenidera gouldii, snowy-capped manakin Pipra nattereri and tooth-billed wren Odontorchilus cinereus, that are restricted to the Amazon region south of the Amazon River and east of the Madeira River.
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