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Puffin vs Pelican - What's the difference?

puffin | pelican |

As nouns the difference between puffin and pelican

is that puffin is while pelican is pelican (any of various seabirds of the family pelecanidae).

puffin

English

(wikipedia puffin)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica ).
  • Any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula'' and ''Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-colored beak.
  • * 1894 , (Rudyard Kipling), '', ''The White Seal :
  • Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas–the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins , who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and–so Limmershin told me–for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

    Synonyms

    * sea-parrot * (qualifier) pope

    Derived terms

    * Atlantic puffin * horned puffin * puffinet * puffinry * puffling * tufted puffin

    pelican

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * pelican crossing * (pelican spider) * pelicanist

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