duckbill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of duckbill
Example Sentences
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Fine wrinkles preserved over the ribcage indicate that the skin of this duckbill was relatively thin.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
Initially, Lyson suspected it was a relatively common duckbill dinosaur.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
So there’s the duckbill style, and ones that have the more flexible trifold kind of shape.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023
If you plan to do trenching, you’ll want a duckbill shovel.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
An interesting excursion to the Blue Mountains and to Bathurst showed many aspects of colonial life, as well as the strange duckbill or platypus in its native haunts.
From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
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