beak
noun
the bill of a bird; neb.
beaked
-
a word derived from
beak.
Example Sentences
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Or you might have seared in your mind the image of the beaked masks that plague doctors wore in the 1600s, which, given the lack of treatments at the time, became closely associated with death.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Most of the 485 fossils the scientists catalogued were from different species of beaked whales.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Jay Cowen, from the trust, told BBC Radio Cornwall it was believed the whale was either a Cuvier's beaked whale or a northern bottlenose.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Through previous projects, Armstrong became aware of oral traditions that told of how ancient humans cultivated beaked hazelnut.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2024
Gelifen couldn’t yet fly alongside her, so she tucked him into her jumper, his beaked face protruding from the blue wool at the top.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
