Definitions for pelican

pelican pel·i·can

Spelling: [pel-i-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈpɛl ɪ kən/

Pelican is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in pelican (aceilnp).

Definitions for pelican

noun

  1. any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch.
  2. a still or retort with two tubes that leave the body from the neck, curve in opposite directions, and reenter the body through the belly.

Origin of pelican

before 1000; Middle English pellican, Old English Late Latin pelicānus, variant of pelecān Greek pelekā́n

Examples for pelican

I returned the following year with The pelican Brief, then The Client.

The real cause of the excitement we soon learned was the arrival of the pelican.

The pelican by this time had got rid of her load of fish and settled herself for conversation.

Something can happen in Whittier this morning and by the afternoon the brothers in pelican Bay know all about it.

The Egret settled to her nest again and the pelican went on with the story.

"It was only to her own people she could do that," said the pelican.

John Grisham is the bestselling novelist of The Firm and The pelican Brief, among others.

At pelican Bay, there are no windows, and there is no reason not to have windows.

Fig. 148 is an illustration of the well-known emblem, the pelican in her piety.

Gang warlords, locked down in Super Maxes like pelican Bay pass on instructions to thousands of followers.

Word Value for pelican
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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