shovel beak

British

noun

Also called: mandibular disease. vet science a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks

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Its green eyes flared, the shovel beak plunged and slashed, but never for a second did the tentacles relax.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

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