单词 | pelican |
释义 | pelican /pel"i keuhn/, n. 1. any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill with a distensible pouch. 2. a still or retort with two tubes that leave the body from the neck, curve in opposite directions, and reenter the body through the belly. [bef. 1000; ME pellican, OE < LL pelicanus, var. of PELECAN < Gk pelekán] |
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