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  • adjective Having a bill like that of a duck.

Etymologies

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duck +‎ billed

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Examples

  • The remains of horned ceratopsians and duckbilled hadrosaurs lie north of the Arctic Circle; fossils of long-necked plesiosaurs and the birdlike Hesperornis have been found 1,400 miles north of the Canadian border.

    New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

  • The image of the duckbilled haggis down at the bottom of the page also gives me pause.

    A phrase I don’t think I was prepared to hear so early in the day | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

  • A duckbilled evil scientist in a wheelchair with a flip-top head allowing him to scratch his brains for inspiration.

    Movies: Tim Burton Looks At Holiday Hell 2008

  • Among them were 25-foot-long maiasaurs -- duckbilled dinosaurs that trekked en masse to this high coastal plain where dogwoods, evergreens and berry bushes grew amid languorous streams.

    New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

  • Instead of these, it has Marsupials only: kangaroos and opossums; wombats and the duckbilled Platypus.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but ..."

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

  • It came from the herd of duckbilled hadrosaurs behind them.

    Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

  • His paper, with its report of a herd of ten thousand duckbilled dinosaurs living along the shore of a vast inland sea, building communal nests of eggs in the mud, raising their infant dinosaurs in the herd, made Grant a celebrity overnight.

    Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

  • For the last two years at Snakewater, the team had excavated only duckbilled hadrosaurs.

    Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

  • Some distance away, they saw the mother triceratops and the baby moving away toward a herd of large duckbilled hadrosaurs, eating foliage from trees at the edge of the lagoon.

    Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

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