beak
noun
the bill of a bird; neb.
beaked
-
a word derived from
beak.
Example Sentences
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Hours after celebrity bald eagle Jackie’s death was announced Monday, a new beaked face showed up in the Big Bear nest she shared with her mate, Shadow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The vast number of fossil whale falls documented, including a new species of beaked whale, is truly amazing and is of major importance to understanding whale evolution and whale distributions over geologic time," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Both are clearly different from the only cetacean circovirus previously known, beaked whale circovirus, which was identified earlier in a stranded whale from the Pacific Ocean.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 6, 2026
But a northern population of beaked hazelnuts revealed something surprising: five distinct genetic subgroups, four of which could be traced to far-flung locations across British Columbia, some 800 kilometers away.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 18, 2024
I could see that it did not have the red, beaked prow of the Aleuts.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
