pelicanryn.
/ˈpɛlᵻk(ə)nri/, U.S. /ˈpɛləkənri/ A place where pelicans congregate to breed.
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1864 T. C. Jerdon Birds India III. ii. 860 I have visited one pelicanry in the Carnatic, where the Pelicans have (for ages, I was told) built their rude nests on rather low trees in the midst of a village.
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 13 Mar. 336/1 This so-called rookery [on the Indian River, Florida] is in fact a pelicanry, being the abode of some tens of thousands of these birds, which for centuries have built their nests in a forest of tall trees, now dead.
1978 S. Ali & S. D. Ripley Handbk. Birds India & Pakistan (ed. 2) (2001) I. 30 For an excellent account of the Aredu-Sarepalle pelicanry in Andhra see K. K. Nellakantan 1949.
1983 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 80 141 (heading) Survey of south Indian pelicanries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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