PELICAN

n. large web-footed water bird

A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae.Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, pelicans make up the order Pelecaniformes. Like other birds in that group, pelicans have all four toes webbed (they are totipalmate). Modern pelicans are found on all continents, except Antarctica. Birds of inland and coastal waters, they are absent from polar regions, the deep ocean, oceanic islands, and inland South America.
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Pélican was a French warship from the late 17th century. Built in Bayonne, France, the original Pélican was launched in 1693. A 500 ton ship equipped with 44 guns and commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, she ran aground on the shores of Hudson Bay a few days after an heroic battle, badly damaged by the encounter and a fierce storm. The Pélican's life was short but glorious. She set sail from France on 8 April 1697 and ran aground on the shores of Hudson's Bay on 8 September of the same year. However, in five short months of service, her place in history was assured as the victor in the greatest naval battle in the history of New France.
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Noun
1. large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
(hypernym) pelecaniform seabird
(hyponym) white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
(member-holonym) Pelecanidae, family Pelecanidae

n. (Zoology) pelican, large web-footed water bird

(n.)
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.
  

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