beakless

1 6.9

Having no hard, pointed mouth part that birds use to eat

adjective
/ˈbiːk.ləs/

: sin pico

The sculpture depicted a beakless creature, emphasizing its unusual features.

Examples

The old decapitations are revised, the dispossessions beakless.

Academic text (2011)
After the storm, the once vibrant parrot was found beakless on the forest floor.
The stranded bird was beakless, unable to eat or drink.

Antonyms

beaked

1 4.4

Having a part shaped like a bird's beak

How Beaklike

beaky

1 7.2

beaked

1 4.4

short-beaked

5.7

beakless

1 6.9

Surface Forms

beakless positive

Morphology

beakless = beak (transparent) = beak + less

The adjective is directly formed by adding the productive suffix '-less' to 'beak' to indicate absence, a relation readily understood by B1 learners.

Etymology

Beakless comes from the word beak and the ending -less, which means 'without', just like in hopeless. So beakless literally means 'without a beak' and is used for animals or things that have no bill.