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the toucan got its scientific name like any other thing or object got its scientific name. It got its name by the word toucan on its own. toucan means whatever the scientific name for the toucan is.

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8y ago

Toucans get their names from their beak, because it is long and very wide.

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14y ago

The toucan got it name from the Latin word meaning to bow, the beak was seen to be more bowed than other bird species.. Toucadecimus - they bow.

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12y ago

from the cereal

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The scientific name for the toucan family ("Ramphastos") was assigned by the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It comes from Ancient Greek, and it means "hooked knife" or "beak of a bird of prey".

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