- Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of
tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied
genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light
and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the
species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in
striking contrast. - A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
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