DUCK-BILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duck-billed mean? 

• DUCK-BILLED (adjective)
  The adjective DUCK-BILLED has 1 sense:

1. having a beak resembling that of a duck

  Familiarity information: DUCK-BILLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUCK-BILLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a beak resembling that of a duck

Synonyms:

duck-billed; duckbill

Context example:

a duck-billed dinosaur

Similar:

beaked (having or resembling a beak)

 Context examples 

The scientists reached this conclusion by comparing CT scans of the teeth of dinosaur embryos of two different species, the Protoceratops andrewsi, which has eggs weighing under 200 grams, and Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that has eggs twenty times that size.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)

A joint research team from the University of Calgary, American Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University announced Monday that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs such as the duck-billed dinosaur took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)