tucana

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Definition of tucana in English English dictionary

A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus

a large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Hyphenation

Tu·can·a

Etymology

() Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From later Latin tucana, a "toucan".