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duckbill

American  
[duhk-bil] / ˈdʌkˌbɪl /

noun

  1. platypus.


Etymology

Origin of duckbill

First recorded in 1550–60; duck 1 + bill 2


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Fine wrinkles preserved over the ribcage indicate that the skin of this duckbill was relatively thin.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2025

Initially, Lyson suspected it was a relatively common duckbill dinosaur.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

So there’s the duckbill style, and ones that have the more flexible trifold kind of shape.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023

I had in my hand a duckbill shovel.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2020

This was the duckbill, or water-mole, which the Australians called the Patybus.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

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