The story
- Latin · derived fromtucana“toucan”
- English todayTucana
Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From later Latin tucana (“toucan”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tucana
Today it means: A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus. Full definition →
Latin tucana