family Pelecanidae

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

family Pelecanidae - pelicans Pelecanidaebird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsorder Pelecaniformes, Pelecaniformes - pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorantspelican - large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fishgenus Pelecanus, Pelecanus - type genus of the Pelecanidae