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  • adjective Not having a beak.

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  • adjective not having a beak or bill

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Examples

  • What I wanted was one more cycle, permission from my health insurance for a sixth and final go with the lupron and follistim, one more chance for that quarter-million dollar baby conceived in petri, fueled with micronutrients fed with a micro-pipette, some kind of shapeless, beakless bird.

    1998, What I Wanted Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011

  • For instance, if anyone has had a egg from a chicken allowed to eat grass and insects, you KNOW how superior it is in taste, nutrients, and humane practice to an egg laid by a beakless, stressed out hen in a CAFO, who spends her entire life in a cage so small she can't stretch her wings.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

  • For instance, if anyone has had a egg from a chicken allowed to eat grass and insects, you KNOW how superior it is in taste, nutrients, and humane practice to an egg laid by a beakless, stressed out hen in a CAFO, who spends her entire life in a cage so small she can't stretch her wings.

    Book Review: "Last Chance to Eat" Sarah Lenz 2008

  • For me it all boils down to "beak or beakless" (as in the Perdue chicken factory).

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Interview: Josh Harris -- Nostradamus of the Net Tells Your Online Future 2009

  • Some corporate poultry farms crowd a million beakless chickens in cramped dark cages, soaking up antibiotics and laying their guts out for the duration of their miserable lives.

    I Don't Like Green Eggs And Ham! 2008

  • A couple of Armenians from South Shore showed up and dragged Eddie off the porch in a club lock so tight he claimed the birds he was seeing were beakless.

    The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007

  • The shadow of the patrolman appeared there like a gaunt secretary-bird, black and beakless.

    The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

  • Before we could interfere he drove our pet out of his cage, and terrible was the battle that went on; the beakless bird was driven far away, and I was quite unhappy about his fate, for he was now beyond my loving care, and I never expected to see him again.

    Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

  • The generations to come would look upon a beakless swan, and would think he had meant it so.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • Presently, in a pause, there came forward on a tall white horse a magnificently tall man, in plain but bright armour, three allerions or beakless eagles on his breast, and on his shield a violet plant, with the motto, Si douce est la violette.

    Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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