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- noun Plural form of
duckbill .
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Examples
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In those years, he found a new species of long-necked dinosaur near Grass Range, a family of Stegosauruses near Malta and three duckbills — which now share a home at Malta's new Great Plains Dinosaur Museum.
Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Skulls of crested duckbills called lambeosaurs show that their budding cranial crests didn't grow until they entered adulthood, and then only slowly.
New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008
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In those years, he found a new species of long-necked dinosaur near Grass Range, a family of Stegosauruses near Malta and three duckbills — which now share a home at Malta's new Great Plains Dinosaur Museum.
Honesty is the best policy ReBecca Foster 2008
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From the discovery of great graveyards of 10,000 duckbills in Montana, they deduce that the beasts formed herds that stretched to the horizon 80 million years ago.
New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008
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The family learns how dangerous such a region is almost immediately upon arrival when the parents are both killed by a rampaging t-rex, and the two youngsters survive by adopting a family of duckbills who protect them from most prehistoric life, but not necessarily from other migrant humans who live by hunting creatures such as the duckbills.
Brighten to Incandescence adamosf 2006
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The family learns how dangerous such a region is almost immediately upon arrival when the parents are both killed by a rampaging t-rex, and the two youngsters survive by adopting a family of duckbills who protect them from most prehistoric life, but not necessarily from other migrant humans who live by hunting creatures such as the duckbills.
Archive 2006-02-01 adamosf 2006
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If that isn't enough reason to detest everything the Ducks stand for, to protest everything they do, to refuse to react to them, to force your game down their duckbills, then the Wild are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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That meant a herd of ten thousand duckbills would support only twenty-five tyrannosaurs.
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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In the distance, the duckbills were honking and starting to run.
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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The duckbills charged with surprising speed, their enormous bodies in a tight cluster, honking and roaring, the infants squealing and trying to stay out from underfoot.
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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