billed
- adjective
- /bɪld/
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- The museum featured a life-sized model of the duck-billed platypus that amazed the children.
Examples
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But not in those fish, just in the duck billed platypus.
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The artist painted a stunning picture of a fish-billed bird perched on a tree branch.
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She drew a cartoon character with a bright beak-billed face that made everyone laugh.
Synonyms
1
4.4
Having a part shaped like a bird's beak
Compounds
2
9.9
A large black and white bird with an ivory colored bill that is very rare and may be extinct
- Australian
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7.2
A mammal from Australia that lays eggs and has a duck-like bill and webbed feet
A North American bird with a thin black bill that makes its own nest and raises its young
- Specialized
A black-and-white seabird with a thin, sharp bill that catches fish
- Specialized
A large seabird that lives in Arctic seas with a short, thick bill and black and white feathers
A small North American bird with a short bill that lives in wet meadows
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Billed comes from the old word bill, meaning a bird's 'beak'. So when we say a bird is 'long-billed' or 'sharp-billed', we are simply describing the shape of its beak.