beaklike 的定义
- the bill of a bird; neb.
- any similar horny mouthpart in other animals, as the turtle or duckbill.
- anything beaklike or ending in a point, as the spout of a pitcher.
- Slang. a person's nose.
- Entomology. proboscis.
- Botany. a narrowed or prolonged tip.
- Nautical. a metal or metal-sheathed projection from the bow of a warship, used to ram enemy vessels; ram; rostrum.
- Typography. a serif on the arm of a character, as of a K.
- Also called bird's beak. Architecture. a pendant molding forming a drip, as on the soffit of a cornice.
- Chiefly British Slang. a judge; magistrate.a schoolmaster.
beaklike 近义词
等同于 aquiline
更多beaklike例句
- In the British Virgin Islands, O’Connell watched as 60 flamingoes held their necks erect and beaks high, moving their heads in a back-and-forth pattern called head-flagging.
- The bendable nose bridge also allowed me to dial in the fit above my beak so it wouldn’t slip down.
- A new fossil find reveals an unexpected bird from that time—one with a whopping, great toucan-like beak.
- The new fossil is a nicely preserved head of a crow-sized bird with a strikingly long, tall and narrow beak.
- That’s a big contrast with modern birds, which have a wild variety of beak shapes befitting their many different ecological niches.
- The key part of the costume, beyond the head-to-toe fabric, was the beak.
- And a sharp chicken beak is nothing to be trifled with either.
- The Duck Dynasty congressman got caught sticking his beak in the wrong place.
- Leroy had survived, but had an injured wing and a scuffed beak.
- I also like a bird's beak knife, for fiddly decorative things like making radish flowers and skinning apples in one long peel.
- Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"
- Jehosophat kicked at him with his wet feet, and tried to grab the fat red nose that hung down over the turkey's beak.
- A little tar and ashes in his beak was a greater kindness to him than a charge of bird shot.
- The peculiarity of their beak consists in the lower mandible being considerably longer than the other into which it shuts.
- To prevent the water rushing into its throat as it skims the surface with its beak, the bird is provided with a very small gullet.