Definitions for pelicans

pelicans pel·i·can

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

Pelicans is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 521 anagrams from letters in pelicans (aceilnps).

Definitions for pelicans

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 pelicans

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

Examples for pelicans

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Word Value for pelicans
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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