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noun large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
originFrom Middle English pellican, pellicane, from Old English pellican (“pelican”), from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán), πέλεκυς (pélekus, “hatchet”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0