bird's beak

noun

Architecture.

1. beak.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bird's beak¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

The top bulb, which includes the bird's beak and a decorative top hat, is covered in a felt-like material, and the bird's body is suspended on two plastic legs.

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Neither piece is included on the lucidly spartan exhibition titled “Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eve View from a Bird’s Beak” at Swiss Institute, which is about as object-filled, object-focused as a sound artist’s survey can get.

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In addition to protecting many animal species, the new EPA policy would extend to many endangered plant species like the Leedy's roseroot, the Mead's milkweed, the Okeechobee gourd and the Palmate-bracted bird's beak.

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During the pandemic, artists on social media adopted the amabie, a 19th-century yokai that is said to predict epidemics and resembles a mermaid with a bird’s beak.

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Naval officer Charles Wilkes named that bird’s beak West Point.

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