duckbill
duckbill Lexical Profile
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• noun
A small, semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) native to eastern Australia, characterized by a broad, flat snout resembling a duck's bill, webbed feet, and a beaver-like tail; a platypus.
"The wildlife documentary followed a female duckbill foraging for aquatic insects along the riverbed."
An herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae from the Late Cretaceous period, characterized by a wide, flattened, toothless beak used for cropping vegetation.
The broad, flattened beak of a duck, or any object, projection, or mechanical part shaped like a duck's bill, such as the visor of a cap or the jaws of specialized pliers.
"She used a pair of hair clips with a long duckbill shape to section her hair before styling it."