Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, hook-billed; having the end of the upper mandible decurved over and beyond that of the lower one, as a bird of prey, parrot, petrel, or gull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology hook-billed; having the upper
mandible longer than the lower one
Etymologies
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epi- + -gnathous
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