Pelican vs Penguin - What's the difference?
pelican | penguin |
Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
(chemistry, obsolete) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes , found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
* 1638 , (Thomas Herbert), Some Yeares Travels , I:
(slang) A nun (because of the black and white habit).
(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
(botany) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, .
As nouns the difference between pelican and penguin
is that pelican is any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch while penguin is any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere; marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.pelican
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(wikipedia pelican)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pelican crossing * (pelican spider) * pelicanistAnagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l)penguin
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(en noun)- Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins'' (white-head in ''Welch ) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves [...].