PELICAN
\pˈɛlɪkən], \pˈɛlɪkən], \p_ˈɛ_l_ɪ_k_ə_n]\
Definitions of PELICAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
By Oddity Software
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A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A large fish - eating bird of warm regions, having a large pouch on the lower jaw, for the temporary storage of fish.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin, Greek] A large web-footed water-fowl remarkable for its enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch capable of holding many quarts of water;—a chemical glass vessel, or alembic, with a tabulated head, from which two opposite and crooked beaks pass out, and enter again at the belly of the cucurbit.
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