duckbill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of duckbill
Example Sentences
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Digital artists then worked alongside the scientists to create lifelike reconstructions that showed how the duckbill would have looked and moved as it walked across soft mud near the very end of the dinosaur age.
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
If you plan to do trenching, you’ll want 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 Train, George Francis
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