Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a beak, or something resembling a beak; beak-shaped.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
- adjective (Biol.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
beak .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or resembling a beak
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Examples
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The creature has been called a beaked rodent, a government experiment, and a viral marketing campaign for a Cartoon Network show.
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The creature has been called a beaked rodent, a government experiment, and a viral marketing campaign for a Cartoon Network show.
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The other American hazel, variously known as the beaked hazel, tailed hazel or horned hazel, was named _Corylus cornuta_ by Marshall
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They are the species known as beaked whales - which normally live quite deep in the ocean and far offshore from Oregon's beaches.
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2009
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A species of whales called beaked whales are particularly susceptible to harm from sonar, which can cause them to strand themselves onshore, Kendall said.
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A species of whales called beaked whales is particularly susceptible to harm from sonar, which can cause them to strand themselves onshore.
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See Mr. Pennant\ Britifh Zoology Vol. 3.p. 43. where it is called the beaked Whale, and very well defcribed; a drawing is feen in the explanatory table, n.
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His eyes are invariably shown as hazel in colour and widely set apart; his hair heavy, curled, and falling to his shoulders; his lips very full, his nose large and "beaked," and his brow, or "great head," of unusual height and breadth.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Even elusive, reclusive creatures such as beaked whales are giving up data in previously unthinkable detail.
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They argue that certain species of marine mammals-such as beaked whales-are uniquely susceptible to injury from active sonar; these injuries would not necessarily be detected by the Navy, given that beaked whales are "very deep divers" that spend little time at the surface., eh?
Althouse 2008
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