arecan toucan

English translation: areca toucan

17:11 Jan 25, 2005
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English term or phrase: arecan toucan
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Selected answer:areca toucan
Explanation:
Areca is a type of a palm tree. No typos here, I believe (unless "arecan" is not a very common adjective from the noun "areca").

Thus, arecan toucan is a toucan which lives on these palms. TranslatonatoR's remark that toucan is an American bird is truly valid, and Areka Palm is also a truly American plant. You just may search the Web for "Areca palm" ... Hope it helps!
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Kirill Semenov
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Local time: 07:31
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Thanks. Your explanation sounds quite logical.
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should be...


Explanation:
"African toucan"
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John Bowden
Local time: 05:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  juvera
24 mins

disagree  TranslatonatoR: There is no such thing as an African Toucan, its a South American Bird. Especially considering that all of the questions by this asker were related to species of South or Central American tropics . Not many tropics in Africa
1 hr
  -> "African TOucan" is a name sometimes gicen to the African barbets, of which the toucan is a relative - see http://www.junglewalk.com/popup.asp?type=s&AnimalwebsiteID=4...
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
toucan


Explanation:
toucan


(tkn´, t´kän) (KEY) , perching bird of the New World tropics, related to the woodpeckers. Toucans vary in size from the jay-sized toucanets to the 24-in. (62-cm) tocos of the Amazon basin. They are notable for their enormous, often brightly colored, canoe-shaped bills, which consist of a lightweight porous substance covered by a horny shell with serrated edges. This bill is well adapted to cutting up the fruits and berries that form their diet. Most brilliantly plumaged are the aracaris and hill toucans of the mountain forests of South America. Toucans are gregarious and, like the woodpeckers, nest in cavities. Toucans are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Piciformes, family Rhamphastidae.


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I\'m guessing there is a typo, and your toucan is probably American, since the bird is from the New World


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Note added at 31 mins (2005-01-25 17:42:34 GMT)
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American Toucan

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Note added at 1 hr 58 mins (2005-01-25 19:10:21 GMT)
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and since your text is related to tropics probably a South American Toucan

TranslatonatoR
Local time: 01:31
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
areca toucan


Explanation:
Areca is a type of a palm tree. No typos here, I believe (unless "arecan" is not a very common adjective from the noun "areca").

Thus, arecan toucan is a toucan which lives on these palms. TranslatonatoR's remark that toucan is an American bird is truly valid, and Areka Palm is also a truly American plant. You just may search the Web for "Areca palm" ... Hope it helps!


Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Local time: 07:31
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks. Your explanation sounds quite logical.
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