pelican
English
editAlternative forms
edit- pelecan (archaic)
Etymology
editFrom Middle English pellican, pellicane, from Old English pellican (“pelican”), from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán), πέλεκυς (pélekus, “hatchet”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpelican (plural pelicans)
- Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:
- The old have outlived that mental world we so misname in calling it a world of enjoyment;—they have outlived the feverish dreams which waste those keen hopes—the pelicans of the heart, feeding on the life-blood of their parent;—they have now no part in the excitement of success, whether in its desire or disappointment.
- 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:
- Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.
- A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
- (chemistry, obsolete) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
- (dentistry) A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
- Synonym: dental pelican
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editTranslations
editany of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae
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editFriulian
editNoun
editpelican m (plural pelicans)
Middle English
editNoun
editpelican
- Alternative form of pellican
Occitan
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Noun
editpelican m (plural pelicans)
- pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)
Derived terms
editRomanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pélican, from Latin pelicānus. Compare Aromanian pilican.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpelican m (plural pelicani)
- pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | pelican | pelicanul | pelicani | pelicanii | |
genitive-dative | pelican | pelicanului | pelicani | pelicanilor | |
vocative | pelicanule | pelicanilor |
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editSee also
editReferences
edit- pelican in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Welsh
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English pelican.
Noun
editpelican m (plural pelicanod)
- pelican (seabird of the family Pelecanidae)
- Synonym: pelig
Derived terms
edit- croesfan pelican (“pelican crossing”)
- pelican Dalmatia (“Dalmatian pelican”)
- pelican gwyn (“great white pelican”)
- pelican gwyn America (“American white pelican”)
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