beaked
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4.4
- adjective
- /biːkt/
:
con pico
- She wore a beaked mask for the masquerade, adding an air of mystery to her costume.
- beaked whale
That looks like a one eyed, like beaked creature.
- That looks like a one eyed, like beaked creature.
Examples
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Folklorist and author Adrienne Mayor will give a lecture on mythological griffins and their links with beaked dinosaurs on Thursday, October 26, at 7:00 P.M.
Academic text (1995) -
All we knew for certain was that this was a fairly large beaked whale, that it was found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans, and that it was probably a rare species.
Academic text (2002) -
Sometimes they cast their beaked shadow even before gunfire can be heard.
Fiction book (2002) -
Several species of beaked whales have never been identified alive in the wild; practically everything known about most of them is based on stranded animals.
Academic text (2002) -
The twenty species of beaked whales known by 1997 were grouped into six genera.
Academic text (2002) -
We scoop up the duckling easily enough, and my mother cradles it against her breast, humming to it and stroking its little beaked head.
Fiction book (1998) -
He was a bird-like man: beaked nose, diminutive chin, and wide eyes that filled the concave lenses of his glasses.
Fiction book (2001) -
And so, nearly a hundred years had passed since the holotype specimen had been dragged off an Australian beach, and Longman's beaked whale, as it had become known, had revealed itself to science only twice, offering up just two damaged skulls.
Academic text (2002) -
There were angry eagles and horned, beaked creatures sharing my view, resting as I was on the rail of the balcony and concentrating under heavy brows on the scene below.
Fiction book (1996) -
Prince Ossolinski appeared in a black penumbra, a tall figure in chiaroscuro for a moment, who then strode forward vigorously in spite of his 80 years, his great beaked Bourbon nose, though he was unrelated to that family, pointing the way.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
2
5.9
Having a beak or snout like a duck's
1
7.2
Having a long pointed nose that looks like a bird's beak
Having a shape like a bird's beak
Having a beak of a certain shape or size
Having a thick beak for eating hard food
A bird with a strong, thick beak for breaking seeds and nuts
An animal with a short beak
A bird with a short beak
A bird with a beak that is straight, not curved
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.4
A medium-sized whale with a long narrow snout that dives deep in oceans
A shrub from western North America that produces nuts in long beaklike coverings
- Australian
A fish from sandy areas of the Pacific and Indian oceans with a pointed snout for digging into sand
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beaked comes from the simple word beak, which originally meant a bird's 'bill'. So, something beaked has a pointed or curved part that looks like a bird's beak.