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Bickern :: Bickern (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself..

Ibis :: Ibis (n.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles..

Toucan :: Toucan (n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast..

Mandible :: Mandible (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds..

Rhyncholite :: Rhyncholite (n.) A fossil cephalopod beak.

Shoebill :: Shoebill (n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak..

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw..

Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera..

Gonydial :: Gonydial (a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

Greenfinch :: Greenfinch (n.) A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep..

Peck :: Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up..

Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

Clip :: Clip (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak..

Beak :: Beak (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal..

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds..

Potamian :: Potamian (n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx..

Beak :: Beak (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve..

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