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Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
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duckbill
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WordNet
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n. primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout [syn: paddlefish , Polyodon spathula ] small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (lb en informal) The duck-billed platypus. 2 (lb en informal) A hadrosaur. 3 (rfv-sense) The paddlefish. 4 A fish of the family ''(taxlink Percophidae family noshow=1)'' 5 # (taxlink Percophis brasiliensis species noshow=1) 6 (taxlink Pteromylaeus ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck , v. t. ] (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatin[ae] , family Anatid[ae] . Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks . Among the former are the common domestic ...
Wikipedia
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Duckbill may refer to: Platypus , Ornithorhynchus anatinus Duckbill dinosaurs, family Hadrosauridae Duckbill fishes, family Percophidae Duckbill eels, family Nettastomatidae Duckbill valve , a valve used to prevent backflow
Usage examples of duckbill.
Great herds of rival duckbill species mingled, armored beasts like ceratops and ankylosaurs jostled for room, herbivores ran alongside giant predators.
T-kings cull the weakest members of the herds, whether duckbills, boneheads, fleet-footed hypsilophodonts, or horned dinosaurs.
Duckbills were hurled into the air, huge adults writhing, their lowing lost in the sudden fury.
The great herbivore herds, the duckbills and ankylosaurs, lifted their heads from their browsing and turned to face the south.
Thus the voices of the duckbills hooted mournfully across the misty plain.
They had duckbills and crests of different shapes on top of their heads.
I can see the heads of some hadrosaurs -- the duckbill guys -- in the distance.
To the east, the land slopes up to a plateau, good for ceratopsians, while to the south is flat country with more sauropod swamps and lots of ornithopod: duckbill and iguanodont.
The public soon filed him away with the duckbill platypus and the mummy of Rameses II-interesting relics of the past no doubt, but nothing to get excited about.
Not a 'close encounter' UFO that can be explained away, but a creature more startling than the duckbill platypus ever was.
I had brought something quite different from the duckbill boneyard: a forearm bone that fit my hand nicely and had the proper size and heft to be an effective club.
The duckbill, like the other ornithopods, are wary beasts because they have neither armor nor weapons.
We crouched our way up the spit, keeping the sand ridge between us and the duckbill.