Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Turacus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
turacou .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
turaco .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large brightly crested bird of Africa
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Examples
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These ladies seem to have chosen for their model the touraco or cockatoo, — they have never heard of
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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These ladies seem to have chosen for their model the touraco or cockatoo, -- they have never heard of "Kikeriki," -- and the effect is at first wondrously grotesque.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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"Beautifully coloured are the green touraco and the purple plantain-eater, a rascally bird! who eats some of our finest plantains, and has bitten holes in many a one I thought to get entirely to myself.
reesetee commented on the word touraco
Any of several large, brightly colored birds of Africa having a helmetlike crest. Also turacou.
February 14, 2007