Pelican

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

II. Pelican ·noun Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

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