beak
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- noun
- /biːk/
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pico
- The parrot used its beak to crack open the hard coconut.
- a bird's beak
- sharp beak
- long beak
So I drew beady eyes and a sharp beak,
- So I drew beady eyes and a sharp beak,
- Challenged with hard seeds, birds evolved tough beaks.
- But also many birds are found to have these tiny magnetite crystals in their at the ends of their beaks.
- Maybe I'm not talking about, you know, birds, how long birds beaks are or the NASDAQ.
- You know the one, the one with The Dirty beak and sooty feathers, the grimy swan.
- It landed on my head and started like with its beak.
- Is that is that a gun or a duck's mouth beak.
Examples
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Ma'am, you got a zebra finch over there with a discolored beak.
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Watch out for her talons and her beak.
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If you look just there you can see it's beak and it's head.
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Pretty little beak and a pretty little tail.
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You can see it in its beak going into the chick's mouth.
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And it's all due to his amazingly large red beak.
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All the birds were arranged with their sharp beaks pointing toward the window.
Fiction book (1993) -
One of the functions of that beak is to proclaim just which sort of toucan he is.
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Darwin noticed that the beaks of the finches were shaped differently depending on the type of food found in their environment.
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The nostrils at the tip of their long beak enable the birds to sniff out soil-dwelling prey.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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3.6
A hard mouth part on a bird used to eat and groom
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6.8
A bird's hard mouth part used for pecking and eating
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9.9
A bird's or animal's beak that sticks out and is used for eating
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9.9
A pointed part like a bird's beak used to pour from a teapot
Compounds
- New Zealand
An evergreen shrub from New Zealand with claw-shaped red to white flowers
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Beak The word beak comes from Old French bec, which meant 'beak' or 'pointed mouth', so imagine a bird's hard, pointed mouth used to pick and eat food — that's why we call a bird's mouth a beak.