英语词汇“pelican's-foot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

pelican's-foot

释义

pelican /pelˈi-kən/

noun

A large tropical and subtropical waterfowl with an enormous pouched bill, fabled in the Middle Ages to wound its breast and feed its young with its blood
An alembic with beaks that lead back to the body, used for continuous distillation
A dentist's beaked instrument (historical)
An old species of ordnance, or its shot

ORIGIN: LL pelicānus, from Gr pelekan, -ānos pelican; cf pelekās, -āntos a woodpecker, and pelekys an axe

pelˈican-fish noun

A deep-sea fish (genus Eurypharynx) with an enormous mouth and comparatively small body

pelˈican-flower noun

The goose-flower, an Aristolochia with a gigantic flower

pelˈican's-footˈ noun

pelican in her piety (heraldry)

A pelican with wings indorsed, feeding her young with her blood

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