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A pelican is a large water bird with a huge and a deep bag of skin hanging under it. It fishes with that bag: it scoops up water and fish, lets the water run out, then swallows the fish. People like to say the bag is a store-cupboard, though actually it works more like a net than a — the bird is not usually walking around with a packed meal for later. You see pelicans by coasts, lakes, and rivers in many warm and mild places. The word is just the bird. In Britain a “pelican crossing” is a pedestrian light; that name plays with letters, and is not a fact about the bird.
鵜鶘
組成From Greek pelekán, probably from pélekus, “hatchet,” from the shape of the beak.
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pelicanname
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pelicannoun/ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən/
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Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
- The old have outlived that mental world we so misname in calling it a world of enjoyment;—they have outlived the feverish dreams which waste those keen hopes—the pelicans of the heart, feeding on the life-blood of their parent;—they have now no part in the excitement of success, whether in its desire or disappointment.
- Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.
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A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
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obsoletechemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA 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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dentistrymedicinesciencesA set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
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slangfirefightinggovernmentA waterbomber.
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slangAn ageing prostitute.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。