touraco

American  

[toor-uh-koh] / ˈtʊər əˌkoʊ /

Or turaco

noun

plural

touracos

1. any of several large, brightly colored birds of the family Musophagidae, of Africa, having a helmetlike crest.

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touraco British  

/ ˈtʊərəˌkəʊ /

noun

1. any brightly coloured crested arboreal African bird of the family Musophagidae: order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc)

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Etymology

Origin of touraco

First recorded in 1735–45; from French touraco or Dutch toerako; further origin uncertain

Example Sentences

He sported a touraco feather in his slouch hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by White, Adam

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.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir