Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of totipalmate natatorial birds, of the order Steganopodes; the pelicans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of birds consisting of the pelicans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Pelecaniformes — thepelicans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pelicans
Etymologies
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Pelecanus + -idae
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