PELECANUS

Meaning of PELECANUS in English

ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈkānəs noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, pelican — more at pelican

: a genus of aquatic birds (family Pelecanidae) comprising the pelicans

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PELECANUS — PELICAN
Ornitho-Birds English vocab
PELECANUS THAGUS — Peruvian pelican
Animal names in Latin and English vocab
PELECANUS RUFESCENS — pink-backed pelican
Animal names in Latin and English vocab
PELECANUS PHILIPPENSIS — spot-billed Pelican
Animal names in Latin and English vocab
PELECANUS ONOCROTALUS — white pelican, great white pelican
Animal names in Latin and English vocab
PELICAN — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelecanus, from Greek pelekan Date: before 12th century any …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BROWN PELICAN — noun Date: 1823 a pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis ) of American coasts that has a brownish body and a chiefly …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PELICAN — Any of about eight species constituting the genus Pelecanus (family Pelecanidae), white or brown birds distinguished by a large, elastic …
Английский словарь Британика
WHITE PELICAN — noun : a very large American pelican ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) that is predominantly white with black wing feathers ; …
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SPECTACLED PELICAN — noun : a large predominantly white pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ) of Australia and New Guinea that has the wings …
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PELICAN — ˈpelə̇kən, -lēk- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English pelican, pellican, from Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelicanus, pelecanus, …
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PELECANOIDES — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷_kəˈnȯi(ˌ)dēz noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin pelecanus pelican + Latin -oides -oid : a genus (the …
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PELECANIFORMES — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈfȯrˌmēz noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Pelecanus + -iformes : an order of swimming birds having all …
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PELECANIDAE — ˌpeləˈkanəˌdē noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from Pelecanus, type genus + -idae : a family formerly held to …
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CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICAN — noun Usage: usually capitalized C : a Pacific coast pelican that is a variety ( Pelecanus occidentalis californicus ) of …
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BROWN PELICAN — noun : an American pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis ) that is dusky brown above with gray wing coverts and tail, …
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PELICAN — (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an …
Английский словарь Webster
PELICAN — ( n. ) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PELICAN — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelecanus, from Greek pelekan Date: before 12th century : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BROWN PELICAN — Date: 1823 : a pelican ( Pelecanus occidentalis ) of American coasts that has a brownish body and a chiefly …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PELICAN — noun a retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for …
Webster English vocab
PELICAN — ■ noun a large gregarious waterbird with a long bill and an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish. [Genus …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PELICAN — [pel.i.can] n [ME, fr. OE pellican, fr. LL pelecanus, fr. Gk pelekan] (bef. 12c): any of a genus (Pelecanus) of …
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BROWN PELICAN — [brown pelican] n (1823): a pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) of American coasts that has a brown body and a chiefly white …
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PELICAN — (genus Pelecanus), any of seven or eight species of water birds constituting the family Pelecanidae (order Pelecaniformes), distinguished by their …
Britannica English vocabulary
PELECANIFORM — order (Pelecaniformes) of relatively large, aquatic birds that share the common characteristic of webbing between all four toes. The three …
Britannica English vocabulary
BROWN PELICAN — Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis). (Pelecanus occidentalis), pelican species common along the southern U.S. coast. See pelican.
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NAKURU, LAKE — Flocks of white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) fishing cooperatively on Lake Nakuru, Kenya. lake in west-central Kenya. It is one of …
Britannica English vocabulary
PELICAN — pel ‧ i ‧ can /ˈpelɪkən/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1000-1100 ; Language: Late Latin ; Origin: pelecanus …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PELICAN — n. Any of about eight species constituting the genus Pelecanus (family Pelecanidae), white or brown birds distinguished by a large, …
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