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say it: PEL-uh-kuhn
pelican is a noun meaning "large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish". It carries one recorded sense.
large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pelican come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.