Tucana
See also: tucana
English
editEtymology
editNamed by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From later Latin tucana (“toucan”).
Proper noun
editTucana
- (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus.