pelican : Idioms & Phrases

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Frigate pelican

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Frigate bird.
Webster 1913

old world white pelican

  • noun similar to American white pelican
    Pelecanus onocrotalus.
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pelican crossing

  • noun an acronym for pedestrian light control; a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by pedestrians
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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.
Webster 1913

Pelican flower

  • (Bot.), the very large and curiously shaped blossom of a climbing plant (Aristolochia grandiflora) of the West Indies; also, the plant itself.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

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.
Webster 1913

pelican state

  • noun a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
    Louisiana; LA.
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Pelican's foot

  • (Zoöl.), a marine gastropod shell of the genus Aporrhais, esp. Aporrhais pes-pelicani of Europe.
Webster 1913

white pelican

  • noun large American pelican; white with black wing feathers
    Pelecanus erythrorhynchos.
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