Usually means: Large bird with capacious beak.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pelican: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pelican: Merriam-Webster
  3. pelican: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pelican: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pelican: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pelican: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pelican, pelican: Wordnik
  8. pelican: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pelican: Wiktionary
  10. pelican: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pelican: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pelican: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pelican, pelican: Dictionary.com
  14. pelican: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pelican: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pelican (EP), Pelican (band), Pelican (bomb), Pelican (disambiguation), Pelican (magazine), Pelican (privateer), Pelican (song), Pelican (train), Pelican, The Pelican (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. pelican: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pelican: Rhymezone
  19. Pelican: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pelican: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pelican: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pelican: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pelican: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pelican: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Pelican: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelican: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pelican: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PELICAN: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pelican: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pelican: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Pelican, pelican: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
noun:  A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (dentistry) A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
noun:  A place in Australia:
noun:  A suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales.
noun:  A rural locality in Western Downs Region, Queensland.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A minor city on Chichagof Island, Alaska.
noun:  An unincorporated community in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A township in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, named after Pelican Lake (Crow Wing County, Minnesota).
noun:  A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, named after the Pelican River (Otter Tail River tributary).
noun:  A town in Oneida County, Wisconsin, named after Pelican Lake (Oneida County, Wisconsin).

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