Crossword clues for hawksbill
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hawkbill \hawk"bill`\, hawksbill \hawks"bill`\(-b[i^]l`), n. (Zo["o]l.) A sea turtle ( Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.
Syn: hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.
hawksbill \hawks"bill\ n. See hawkbill.
Syn: hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.
Wiktionary
alt. The tropical marine turtle, ''Eretmochelys imbricata'', that is a source of tortoiseshell. n. The tropical marine turtle, ''Eretmochelys imbricata'', that is a source of tortoiseshell.
WordNet
n. pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell [syn: hawksbill turtle, hawkbill, tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata]
Usage examples of "hawksbill".
At the moment, there were a hundred and forty inmates in Hawksbill Station, pretty close to the all-time high.
Anvil, waiting for the Hawksbill Field to enfold him and kick him back to the early Paleozoic.
Hammer glowed, meaning that they had activated the Hawksbill Field on the sending end, somewhere up around 2028 or 2030 A.
Quesada was keeping him drugged and trying to bring him slowly back to the reality of Hawksbill Station.
Barrett wondered what this young man had done to earn him the trip to Hawksbill Station, but there was time for such inquiries later.
Most of the time, men at Hawksbill Station tried not to speak about their families, preferring to keep those tormenting memories well repressed.
Such gifts usually meant a brief thaw in the world situation, which customarily produced a short-lived desire to be kind to the boys in Hawksbill Station.
Of the fifty or so prisoners who had preceded Barrett to Hawksbill, none remained alive.
North America, were performing the closest thing Hawksbill Station had to a religious function.
With the descent of that heavy foot all the future would change, and there would never have been any Hawksbill Station, no human race, no James Edward Barrett.
With a little effort he could get them to believe in the existence of several simultaneous Hawksbill Stations scattered on this level of time.
To him, Quesada and Norton and Rudiger seemed just about as stable as when they had first dropped into the Anvil of Hawksbill Station, but that was possibly the distorting effect of his own blurred perceptions.
I recommend prompt termination of the Hawksbill Station penal colony and, where possible, the therapeutic rehabilitation of its inmates.
How is it nobody Up Front ever dug up the fossil remains of Hawksbill Station?
No Hawksbill Field glow was in evidence, and nothing had been disturbed.