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Another word for beak

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Noun
      1. A projecting part with an opening, as at the end of a hose, for regulating and directing a flow of fluid.
      2. The human nose.
      1. The projecting nose, jaws, or anterior facial part of an animal's head.
      2. A similar prolongation of the anterior portion of the head in certain insects, such as weevils; a rostrum.
      3. A spout or nozzle shaped like such a projection.
      1. A dais, pulpit, or other elevated platform for public speaking.
      2. The curved, beaklike prow of an ancient Roman ship, especially a war galley.
      3. The speaker's platform in an ancient Roman forum, which was decorated with the prows of captured enemy ships.
      1. A beak of a bird.
      2. A nose or snout.
      3. A projecting part, especially a nib.
      1. A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.
      2. A slender, tubular organ in the head region of an invertebrate, such as certain insects and worms, usually used for sucking or piercing.
      3. A human nose, especially a prominent one.
      1. The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
      2. A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface:
      3. A plan for an anticipated course of action:
      1. The forward part of a ship's hull; the bow.
      2. A projecting forward part, such as the front end of a ski.
      1. The part of the human face or the forward part of the head of other vertebrates that contains the nostrils and organs of smell and forms the beginning of the respiratory tract.
      2. The sense of smell:
      3. The ability to detect, sense, or discover as if by smell:
      1. The lower jaw of a vertebrate animal.
      2. Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds.
      3. Any of various mouth organs of invertebrates used for seizing and biting food, especially either of a pair of such organs in insects and other arthropods.
      1. The sharpened point of a quill pen.
      2. A tapered point of a pen, designed to be inserted into a penholder or fountain pen.
      3. A sharp point or tip.
      1. An itemized list or statement of fees or charges.
      2. A statement or list of particulars, such as a theater program or menu.
      3. The entertainment offered by a theater.
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Sentence Examples

  • The huge beak, looking like the great claw of a lobster, more than 8 in.

  • I) as to bring the beak into close contact with the haunches of the fore-legs.

  • This odd animal is provided with a bill or beak, which is not, like that of a bird, affixed to the skeleton, but is merely attached to the skin and muscles.

  • long, with a pointed beak of 2 in.

  • Owen's description showed this view to be groundless, and he attributed the extraordinary development of the toucan's beak to the need of compensating, by the additional power of mastication thus given, for the absence of any of the grinding structures that are so characteristic of the intestinal tract of vegetable-eating birds - its digestive organs possessing a general simplicity of formation.

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