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Definition of Pelicans
1. pelican [n] - See also: pelican
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelicans
Literary usage of Pelicans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"pelicans. THE pelicans. pelicans are large-sized birds, with long, large, straight,
rather broad and sharply hooked and acute bills; they have short stout ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"pelicans are gregarious and nest in largo colonies. Their flight is strong but
leisurely, six or seven wing- strokes being followed by a short sail, ..."
3. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"pelicans are large, short legged, web footed [all four toes joined by a web]
birds, the most noticeable feature of which is the long bill with its enormous ..."
4. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"pelicans. Family PELECANIDAE. pelicans are large, short legged, web footed (all
four toes joined by a web) birds, the most noticeable feature of which is ..."
5. Florida Trails as Seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to by Winthrop Packard (1910)
"There is something about it which makes one think of pelicans as doing a little
... Observing the pelicans that meet the steamers at Jacksonville and some ..."
6. A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri by Otto Widmann (1907)
"and pelicans on the 10th near Leavenworth and an abundance of geese and ...
The pelicans are the only wild fowl which seem to maintain their average ..."
7. An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and by James Balfour Paul (1893)
"pelicans (3). Arg. in three nests vert as many pelicans feeding their young or.
... Arg. in nests vert three pelicans feeding their young or, on a chief az. ..."
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