Words similar to pelican

Example sentences for: pelican

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One little pelican was abandoned by his parents in their haste to start a second mating and nesting in the same season.
She managed to penetrate Rupert Everett's languid self-regard in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and made the brilliant but remote Denzel Washington almost puppyish in The Pelican Brief (1993).
It then bubbles to the surface of the water and a small amount is ingested by the pelican when he eats.
The name is a distortion of the Spanish Isla de Alcatraces (Pelican Island).
Other words are used more specifically to indicate the nature of an individual's sexual tendencies: the passive homosexual is known as pasivats or pelican (because of his funny walk) while active homosexuals are called aktivist, activats, and draifer driver.