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Beak :: Beak (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

Rostriform :: Rostriform (a.) Having the form of a beak.

Rhyncholite :: Rhyncholite (n.) A fossil cephalopod beak.

Disarmed :: Disarmed (a.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks..

Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Lunule :: Lunule (n.) 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-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve..

Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

Recurvirostral :: Recurvirostral (a.) Having the beak bent upwards.

Ibis :: Ibis (n.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles..

Curvirostral :: Curvirostral (a.) Having a crooked beak, as the crossbill..

Crane''s-bill :: Crane's-bill (n.) The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane..

Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..

Peck :: Peck (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument..

Promerops :: Promerops (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail..

Saury :: Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring..

Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..

Aquiline :: Aquiline (a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

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

Brevirostrate :: Brevirostrate (a.) Short-billed; having a short beak.

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