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Unicorn vs Pelican - What's the difference?

unicorn | pelican |

As nouns the difference between unicorn and pelican

is that unicorn is a mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead while pelican is pelican (any of various seabirds of the family pelecanidae).

unicorn

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rft-sense)A mythical beast resembling a horse with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
  • A heraldic representation of such a beast used as a charge or as a supporter; as in the arms of Great Britain and of Scotland.
  • (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ); a reem or wild ox.
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  • God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn : he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  • Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax.
  • The larva of a unicorn moth.
  • The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
  • A howitzer.
  • Hyponyms

    * pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

    Meronyms

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    Holonyms

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    Derived terms

    * Chinese unicorn * Invisible Pink Unicorn * unicorn bait * unicorn root * unicornlike

    See also

    * alicorn * bicorne * monoceros * reem * tricorn, tricorne

    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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