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turaco

American  
[toor-uh-koh] / ˈtʊər əˌkoʊ /

noun

plural

turacos
  1. a variant of touraco.


turaco British  
/ ˈtʊərəˌkəʊ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of touraco

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"The emerald turaco and the hoopoe, both with crown-like head feathers, scored highly," they wrote in their paper in the psychology journal i-Perception.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2021

Lots of these are flashy and colorful, like Peru’s Andean cock-of-the-rock, Angola’s red-crested turaco, Nicaragua’s turquoise-browed motmot.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2016

Her mind ran quickly back to the reddish dust of the road that led to Ziavi, the shrieking of the blue turaco birds at dawn, the taste of her mother’s groundnut stew.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

For this occasion he had bound round his waist the pelt of one of the slaughtered sheep, and had made a head-dress of draggled turaco feathers.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French