beak
喙,鸟嘴,喙喙,鸟喙
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Definitions
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- : the bill of a bird; neb.
- : any similar horny mouthpart in other animals, as the turtle or duckbill.
- : anything beaklike or ending in a point, as the spout of a pitcher.
- : Slang. a person's nose.
- : Entomology. proboscis.
- : Botany. a narrowed or prolonged tip.
- : Nautical. a metal or metal-sheathed projection from the bow of a warship, used to ram enemy vessels; ram; rostrum.
- : Typography. a serif on the arm of a character, as of a K.
- : Also called bird's beak. Architecture. a pendant molding forming a drip, as on the soffit of a cornice.
- : Chiefly British Slang. a judge; magistrate.a schoolmaster.
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In the British Virgin Islands, O’Connell watched as 60 flamingoes held their necks erect and beaks high, moving their heads in a back-and-forth pattern called head-flagging.
The bendable nose bridge also allowed me to dial in the fit above my beak so it wouldn’t slip down.
A new fossil find reveals an unexpected bird from that time—one with a whopping, great toucan-like beak.
The new fossil is a nicely preserved head of a crow-sized bird with a strikingly long, tall and narrow beak.
That’s a big contrast with modern birds, which have a wild variety of beak shapes befitting their many different ecological niches.
The key part of the costume, beyond the head-to-toe fabric, was the beak.
And a sharp chicken beak is nothing to be trifled with either.
The Duck Dynasty congressman got caught sticking his beak in the wrong place.
Leroy had survived, but had an injured wing and a scuffed beak.
I also like a bird's beak knife, for fiddly decorative things like making radish flowers and skinning apples in one long peel.
Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
Jehosophat kicked at him with his wet feet, and tried to grab the fat red nose that hung down over the turkey's .