Pelican

['pelɪk(ə)n] or ['pɛlɪkən]

Definition

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

Typed by Audrey--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

(n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

Editor: Sallust

Definition

n. a large water-fowl having an enormous distensible gular pouch: an alembic with tubulated head from which two opposite and crooked beaks extend and enter again the body of the vessel—used for continuous distillation: a dentist's instrument: (her.) a pelican above her nest with wings indorsed wounding her breast with her beak in order to feed her young with her blood.

Typist: Terrence