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pelican
[ pel-i-kuhn ]
noun
- any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
- a still or retort with two tubes that leave the body from the neck, curve in opposite directions, and reenter the body through the belly.
pelican
/ ˈpɛlɪkən /
noun
- any aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, such as P. onocrotalus ( white pelican ): order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
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Example Sentences
Something can happen in Whittier this morning and by the afternoon the brothers in Pelican Bay know all about it.
Gang warlords, locked down in Super Maxes like Pelican Bay pass on instructions to thousands of followers.
At Pelican Bay, there are no windows, and there is no reason not to have windows.
In 2011 a Minnesota farmer smashed thousands of eggs and young chicks of the federally protected American white pelican.
I returned the following year with The Pelican Brief, then The Client.
Pelican, bird of ill omen, go to thy hole and hide thy sorry face.'
His tone and expression satisfied us that pelican would not keep us from starving.
One day I captured a young pelican, and trained him to accompany me in my walks and assist me in my fishing operations.
But it was not impossible that there might be some other opening, and the Pelican crawled in search of it along the Java coast.
He said that if it were not that he had to go to Pelican Lake that very night he would go along and help blow up the old rascal.
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