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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pelican has 1 sense
- pelican(n = noun.animal) Array - large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish; Array is a kind of pelecaniform seabird
is a member of family pelecanidae, pelecanidae
has particulars: pelecanus erythrorhynchos, white pelican, old world white pelican, pelecanus onocrotalus
CIDE DICTIONARY
pelican, n. [F. pélican, L. pelicanus, pelecanus, Gr. peleka`n, peleka^s, pele`kanos, the woodpecker, and also a water bird of the pelican kind, fr. peleka^n to hew with an ax, fr. pe`lekys an ax, akin to Skr. para.].
- Any large webfooted bird of the genus
Pelecanus , of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored. [1913 Webster]" The American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) and the brown species (Pelecanus fuscus ) are abundant on the Florida coast in winter, but breed about the lakes in the Rocky Mountains and British America." [1913 Webster] - A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation. [1913 Webster]" The principle is still employed in certain modern forms of distilling apparatus." [1913 Webster]
Frigate pelican (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. See under Frigate . -- Pelican fish (Zoöl.), deep-sea fish (Eurypharynx pelecanoides ) of the order Lyomeri , remarkable for the enormous development of the jaws, which support a large gular pouch. -- Pelican flower (Bot.), the very large and curiously shaped blossom of a climbing plant (Aristolochia grandiflora ) of the West Indies; also, the plant itself. -- Pelican ibis (Zoöl.), a large Asiatic wood ibis (Tantalus leucocephalus ). The head and throat are destitute of feathers; the plumage is white, with the quills and the tail greenish black. -- Pelican in her piety (in heraldry and symbolical art), a representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her breast in order to nourish her young with her blood; -- a practice fabulously attributed to the bird, on account of which it was adopted as a symbol of the Redeemer, and of charity. -- Pelican's foot (Zoöl.), a marine gastropod shell of the genus Aporrhais , esp. Aporrhais pes-pelicani of Europe.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pelican, n. any large gregarious waterfowl of the family Pelecanidae with a large bill and a pouch in the throat for storing fish.
Idiom
pelican crossing (in the UK) a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights operated by pedestrians.
Etymology
OE pellican & OF pelican f. LL pelicanus f. Gk pelekan prob. f. pelekus axe, with ref. to its bill
ROGET THESAURUS
pelican
Provision
N provision, supply, grist, grist for the mill, subvention, resources, groceries, grocery, providing, purveyance, reinforcement, reenforcement, commissariat, provender, ensilage, viaticum, caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder, batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur, jackal, pelican, sutler, grocery shop, grocery store.
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