different between pelican vs heron

English

Etymology

From Middle English pelican, pellican, pellicane, from Old English pellican (“pelican”), from Latin pelec?nus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pelekán),??????? (pélekus, “hatchet”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?p?l.?.k?n/, /?p?l.?.k?n/

Noun

pelican (plural pelicans)

1. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
2. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
3. (chemistry, obsolete) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
4. (dentistry) A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.

Derived terms

• pelican crossing
• pelican pot
• pelican spider
• pelicanist
• dental pelican

Translations

Anagrams

• Calpine, capelin, capline, in place, panicle, pinacle

Friulian

Noun

pelican m (plural pelicans)

1. pelican

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin pelic?nus.

Noun

pelican m (plural pelicans)

1. pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)

Derived terms

• pelican australian
• pelican cresp
• pelican del Pero
• pelican ròsa
• pelican vulgar

Romanian

Alternative forms

• pelecan (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French pélican, from Latin pelic?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.li?kan/

Noun

pelican m (plural pelicani)

1. pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)

Declension

Derived terms

• pelican comun
• pelican cre?
• pelicanol

Related terms

• pelecaniforme

See also

• steganipod

References

• pelican in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Old Dutch *heigero (compare Middle Dutch heiger), from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigr?, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hr?gra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek ????? (kríz?, “to creak, screech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

heron (plural herons)

1. A long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

Coordinate terms

• (a wading bird): egret, bittern, crane, heronsew, stork

Translations

Further reading

• heron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ardeidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ardeidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Honer, Horne, Rhone, Rhône, honer, horne, rhone

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hayroun, heyroun, heroun, herne, heiron, heyrune, heyrone, herowne, heern

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hair?, *haigr?, from Old Dutch *heigero, from Frankish/Proto-West Germanic *hraigr?, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, from earlier *hraigrô via dissimilation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??run/, /?h??r(?)n/, /?h?i?run/, /h?i??ru?n/

Noun

heron (plural herons)

1. the grey heron (Ardea cinerea), or (rarely) a representation of it used in heraldry
2. the meat of a heron used as food.

Related terms

• heronsewe

Descendants

• English: heron, hern
• Scots: hern

References

• “heir?un, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• hairon

Etymology

From Old French heron, of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *hraigr?.

Noun

heron m (plural herons)

1. heron

Descendants

• French: héron