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Meaning of BEAKED

Pronunciation:  beekt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  having or resembling a beak
 
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 Synonyms: beaklike, billed, duckbill, duck-billed, hawklike, hawky, rostrate
 
 Antonyms: beakless
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Beaked\, a.
1. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. ``Each
   beaked promontory.'' --Milton.
2. (Biol.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak;
   rostrate.
{Beaked whale} (Zo["o]l.), a cetacean of the genus
   {Hyperoodon}; the bottlehead whale.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: aquiline, aquiline-nosed, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, billed, bill-like, bill-shaped, clawlike, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed, down-curving, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hooked, hooklike, parrot-nosed, rhamphoid, Roman-nosed, rostrate, rostriform, unciform, uncinate, unguiform
 

 

 

 

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