beak

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More of the creature has now been recovered at the reserve - including its beak which is a hard mouth part used for crushing prey.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

Tesla, too, has its beak in the federal trough.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

The bird opened its curved beak and hissed warningly; but its eyes were dull and half-closed.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander