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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Slender-billed, as a bird: formerly specifying the Tenuirostres, now simply descriptive. See cuts under bill and Promerops.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

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  • adjective zoology Having a thin bill.

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