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 Translation for 'pelican' from English to Latin
NOUN   a pelican | pelicans
anim.T
onocrotalus {m}
pelican
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Translation for 'pelican' from English to Latin

pelican
onocrotalus {m}anim.T
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Usage Examples English
  • The gulf of Aqaba hosts more than 390 bird species including migratory birds such as the greater flamingo, great white pelican and the pink-backed pelican.
  • One such is that of the pelican. It was believed that a pelican was prepared to peck its own breast in order to feed its hungry young.
  • The pelican man is sent to a zoo, but Emil helps him escape. Then the pelican man changes back to pelican appearance.
  • Hart continues to say that, in other funerary papyri, the pelican can predict safe travel for a dead person in the Underworld.
  • The locality is named after Pelican Station, a pastoral run operated by James Ivory in the early 1850s. It is assumed that pelicans were seen at times on nearby Pelican Lagoon.

  • Pelican Lake takes its name from the pelican, which is still a common migratory bird in the state.
  • "Aporrhais pesgallinae" is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aporrhaidae, the pelican's foot snails or pelican's foot shells.
  • "Arrhoges occidentalis", common name the American pelicanfoot, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae, the pelican's foot snails or pelican's foot shells.
  • Rare birds reported in the lake are Asiatic dowitchers (NT), Dalmatian pelican (VU), Pallas's fish-eagles (VU), the very rare migrant spoon-billed sandpiper (CR) and spot-billed pelican (NT).
  • At the main entrance to the town market stands the Pelican Well; it includes a design featuring a pelican feeding its young with its own blood.

  • The largest pelican rookery in Australia is at Jack Point, just off the Princes Highway and about [...] north of Salt Creek.
  • Other species of "Aristolochia" are also called "pelican flowers"; e.g. "Aristolochia gigantea" (giant pelican flower) and "Aristolochia nana" (tiny pelican flower).
  • Attempting to determine the correspondence is problematic; for example, "pelican" may correspond to [...] ("vomiting"), in reference to the pelican's characteristic behaviour, but it may also correspond to [...] ("cup"), as a reference to the pelican's jaw pouch.
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