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duckbilled dinosaur — duckbilled dinosaur, a dinosaur with a broad bill, many small teeth, and webbed feet, that lived mostly near water; hadrosaur … Useful english dictionary
duckbilled platypus — noun small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae • Syn: ↑platypus, ↑duckbill, ↑duck billed platypus, ↑Ornithorhynchus anatinus •… … Useful english dictionary
duckbilled platypus — UK [ˌdʌkbɪld ˈplætɪpəs] / US noun [countable] Word forms duckbilled platypus : singular duckbilled platypus plural duckbilled platypuses a small furry Australian animal with a wide flat beak and tail. It lays eggs and feeds milk to its young … English dictionary
duckbilled — a descriptive term for a snout that is shaped like a duck s bill, flattened and often concave in the upper outline, e.g. in the gobiid Anatirostrum profundorum or the pike Esox lucius … Dictionary of ichthyology
duckbilled platypus — duck|billed plat|y|pus [ˌdʌkbıld ˈplætıpəs] n a ↑platypus … Dictionary of contemporary English
duckbilled platypus — duck|billed plat|y|pus [ ,dʌkbıld plætıpəs ] noun count a small furry Australian animal with a wide flat beak and tail. It lays eggs and feeds milk to its young … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
duckbilled platypus — noun (C) a platypus … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
duck|billed — «DUHK BIHLD», adjective. 1. having a bill like that of a duck: »a duckbilled fish. 2. shaped like a duck s bill: »a duckbilled plate, duckbilled lips … Useful english dictionary
Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… … Universalium
duck-billed — adj. 1. having a beak resembling that of a duck. Syn: duckbill, duckbilled. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
