beak
noun
the bill of a bird; neb.
beakless
-
a word derived from
beak.
Example Sentences
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How Bruce the beakless parrot became an alpha male.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
With a slight southern drawl, he speaks with a particular distaste for the egg industry, notorious for caging and force-feeding beakless chickens and burning through resources.
From Forbes ● Nov. 23, 2013
A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Receptacle flat, the scarious chaff falling with the nearly terete wingless and beakless achenes; pappus of 2 stout subulate retrorsely hispid awns.—Smooth herbs, with opposite dissected leaves and pedunculate heads of yellow flowers.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Terminal spike pistillate at top; pistillate spikes oblong or cylindrical, dense, erect; perigynium ovate or obovate, nearly or quite beakless, often hairy.—Sp.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
