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What is a pelican?

What is a pelican? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
  2. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
  3. (chemistry) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
  4. (dentistry) A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican.
The tweezers are in the form of the beak of a pelican, the body of which opens to reveal a baby in swaddling clothes in the exposed recess.
They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
The white pelican of North America is a large, web-footed bird with an enormous throat pouch for scooping up fish.
It was also hazardous for pedestrians to cross Cemetery Road, and she suggested traffic lights and a pelican crossing were needed.
Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull.

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