beak
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And as for the showstopping pelican, the frog erupts out of its beak right on cue, a moment that indeed inspires a round of laughter and childlike awe.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Standing about 25 inches tall, it likely had a toothless beak, large eye sockets, and hollow bones.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
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
Qingrong Yang captured a ladyfish snatching prey just beneath a little egret's beak.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
Then, with a clack of his beak, the flies were gone.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Vocabulary lists containing beak
Aquatic, Waddle, and Plumage: Penguin Parlance
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 4–6
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