noun A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
noun A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
noun A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
noun The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
noun The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
noun The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
noun Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
noun Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. A toe clip. That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.