Beaked: alternatives and connections

beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

Shaped like a crow's beak.

Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the…

any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point o…

A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or s…

A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel t…

A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forc…

Crescent-shaped; as, a lunate leaf; a lunate beak; a lunated cross.

A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shap…

Any one of several species of long-tailed, passerine birds of the genus Momotus, having a strong serrated beak. In most of the species…

A point halfway between the fess point and the middle base point of an escutcheon; -- called also navel point. See Escutcheon.