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PELICAN

Pronunciation (US):

• PELICAN (noun)
The noun PELICAN has 1 sense:

1. large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish

Familiarity information: PELICAN used as a noun is very rare.

• PELICAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pelican" is a kind of...):

pelecaniform seabird (large fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pelican"):

Pelecanus erythrorhynchos; white pelican (large American pelican; white with black wing feathers)

Old world white pelican; Pelecanus onocrotalus (similar to American white pelican)

Holonyms ("pelican" is a member of...):

family Pelecanidae; Pelecanidae (pelicans)

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(Egyptian proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of Old world white pelican
Meaning of pelecaniform seabird
Meaning of family Pelecanidae
Meaning of Pelecanus onocrotalus
Meaning of Pelecanidae

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