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pelican

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Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

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Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no Birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still! Edward Lear

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah. Jada Pinkett Smith

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words. Ron Shock

The sea breeze blows the pelican where he wants to go. Creole Proverb

Access to Hat, Gunnison, and Cub islands is strictly limited by the State of Utah in an effort to protect nesting colonies of American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos). Source: Internet

A memorial outside the gated community in Newport Coast off of North Pelican Hill Road that holds Bryant’s family home continued to grow as mourners left flowers – many yellow and some purple, Laker colors. Source: Internet

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