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
Tesla, too, has its beak in the federal trough.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
Pipping is when a baby bird uses its beak to crack open its shell, and pip watch is the online vigil and hoopla surrounding that activity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025
Imagine a fifty-pound pigeon with the feet of a turkey, the beak of a toucan, and the prehistoric charm of a rhinoceros.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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