noun
pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants
• Syn: ↑order Pelecaniformes
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves
• Member Meronyms:
↑Pelecanidae, ↑family Pelecanidae, ↑Fregatidae, ↑family Fregatidae, ↑Sulidae, ↑family Sulidae, ↑Phalacrocoracidae, ↑family Phalacrocoracidae, ↑Anhingidae, ↑family Anhingidae, ↑Phaethontidae, ↑family Phaethontidae
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: an order of swimming birds having all four toes united by a broad web and including the pelicans, gannets, cormorants, tropic birds, snakebirds, and frigate birds
Useful english dictionary. 2012.