The Collaborative International Dictionary
duck-billed \duck-billed\ adj. 1. having a beak resembling that of a duck.
Syn: duckbill, duckbilled.
Wiktionary
a. Especially of animal species, having facial features resembling the bill of a duck.
WordNet
adj. having a beak resembling that of a duck; "a duck-billed dinosaur" [syn: duckbill]
Usage examples of "duck-billed".
Sucking peacefully at the lakeside vegetation, these goats were like nothing so much as the hadrosaurs, the long-vanished duck-billed dinosaurs.
Again Remembrance scurried for cover, screened by the huge, impassive bodies of a herd of duck-billed goats.
It's an unpopular posting who wants to be stationed downriver at the port, outwitting customs diddlers and duck-billed cargo thieves?
Who else but Cal would care whether the body of a duck-billed dinosaur washed out one side of the mountain or the other?
From what little is known now, it is thought to have belonged to a hadrosaur, a large duck-billed dinosaur.
Nearby, Thorne saw eight duck-billed dinosaurs with large tube-like crests rising above their heads.
We barreled along through a primeval world where I could easily imagine duck-billed dinosaurs browsing in the trees.
She had contracts to go through for Hermione, Rannaldini, and now Rachel-and darling Wolfie, having sent her a boomerang and a furry duck-billed platypus for her birthday, deserved a long chatty letter.
I was thinking of all manner of things, and along what I like to refer to as the tortured paths of my mind, I thought of the duck-billed platypus.
He also gave passing thought as to whether, in fact, the duck-billed platypus was a simple outgrowth of nature or a demented joke on the part of a higher power, and if that were the case, then just who might that higher power be and what did that imply about the structure of the universe.
An ancient ramscoop wallowing along through space and time (a lot of time, that duck-billed platypus of the spaceways!
Linda, from a mixture of politeness and interest, looked for the second time at the tall ostriches, the birds of paradise, the humming-birds brilliant and fragile as flowers, the lone, duck-billed platypus.
She was an old ram-scoop, the duck-billed platypus of the spaceways.
The brightest cephalopods are no closer to the oysters than you are to a duck-billed platypus.
They are no closer to fish than humans are, or duck-billed platypuses, or any other mammals.