Definition of beak

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Beak (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

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Rostriform :: Rostriform (a.) Having the form of a beak.
Saury :: Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring..
Chelonia :: Chelonia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix..
Deltidium :: Deltidium (n.) The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form..
Pinefinch :: Pinefinch (n.) The pine grosbeak.
Bickern :: Bickern (n.) An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself..
Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
Beak :: Beak (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant..
Beard :: Beard (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some bird.
Pressiroster :: Pressiroster (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers..
Hornbeak :: Hornbeak (n.) A fish. See Hornfish.
Tube-nosed :: Tube-nosed (a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
Flamingo :: Flamingo (n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum..
Soosoo :: Soosoo (n.) A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak..
Xiphius :: Xiphius (n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw..
Rostelliform :: Rostelliform (a.) Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak..
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..
Erostrate :: Erostrate (a.) Without a beak.
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
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