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duck-billed

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adj.1.having a beak resembling that of a duck.
a.1.Having a bill like that of a duck; as, a duck-billed dinosaur.
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Adj.1.duck-billed - having a beak resembling that of a duck; "a duck-billed dinosaur"
duckbill
beaked - having or resembling a beak
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The findings are mostly evidence of theropods (upright carnivores) with footprints of theropod prey, hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs.
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Authored and illustrated by Australian aboriginal artist, actor and writer Mundara Koorang, The Little Platypus And The Fire Spirit is a "Dream Time" story of the duck-billed, web-footed, paddle-tailed, fur covered platypus and how such a peculiar creature came to be of such a curiously featured shape.
The Little Platypus and the Fire Spirit by Children's Bookwatch
The configuration of these ear bones is similar in all three extant groups of mammals: the placental mammals, which bear live young, the pouched marsupials, and the egg-laying monotremes, such as the duck-billed platypus.
Groovy bones: mammalian ear structure evolved more than once by Perkins, S. / Science News
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