Definition of "touraco" []

• Any of various weak-flying, cuckoolike African birds of the family Musophagidae, many of which have brightly colored plumage and long tails. (noun)

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• "These ladies seem to have chosen for their model the touraco or cockatoo, — they have never heard of"
• "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."
• ""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."