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Definition of Hawkbills
1. hawkbill [n] - See also: hawkbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkbills
Literary usage of Hawkbills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Studies: A Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in High Schools by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1903)
"By this same method the loggerheads, the hawkbills, and the common green turtles
are also captured in considerable numbers. These are of smaller size, ..."
2. Animals: A Text-book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1905)
"By this same method the loggerheads, the hawkbills, and the common green turtles
are also captured in considerable numbers. These are of smaller size, ..."
3. Animal Forms: A Second Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Harold Heath (1902)
"They t, and a weight of nes captured for eggs in the sand. he hawkbills, and in
consider- e, and the second >rny plates cover- '^::r'S"« °|''Pa^ commerce. ..."
4. The Floria of To-day: A Guide for Tourists and Settlers by James Wood Davidson (1889)
"... are also loggerheads, hawkbills, and trunk- backs. They weigh from a few pounds
up, it is claimed, to 1200 pounds each. The turtling business is varied. ..."
5. A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood (1894)
"... and the Captain told me to come and look at his turtle pond, in which were a
number of green turtle, and also the two hawkbills sent by ..."
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