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Definition of Beaked
1. Adjective. Having or resembling a beak.
Antonyms: Beakless
Definition of Beaked
1. a. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
Definition of Beaked
1. Verb. (past of beak) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beaked
1. beak [adj] - See also: beak
Medical Definition of Beaked
1.
1. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. "Each beaked promontory."
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaked
Literary usage of Beaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"In small °°5> in mountain swamps; "»t: fruit ovate, somewhat 3-sided, conic-beaked,
2-toothed, pubescent, «palling the ovate ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1883)
"The stomach of the white-beaked dolphin differs from that of the porpoise in ...
Like the porpoise, the white-beaked dolphin has but one small compartment ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Capsule long-pedicellate, nodding or rarely erect, symmetrical or incurved ;
operculum large, long-beaked. Peristome of 16 linear-lanceolate purple or deep ..."
4. A familiar history of birds: Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts by Edward Stanley (1880)
"... (Flat-beaked). THE three genera of this Table have been included by some ...
or cutting-beaked birds; but the general form of their beaks renders them ..."
5. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"CHAPTER XXXI beaked DINOSAURS AND ORIGIN OF BIRDS Ornithischia The general
characters of the ... or beaked dinosaurs, have already been given (page 506). ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Nvt as long as the glumes, linear, beaked, pale.—DISTRIB. Arctic and Alpine
Europe, Greenland, Rocky Mts. 9. сл REX, /. SEDGE. Perennial grass-like herbs. ..."
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