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beak

noun as in nose of animal

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The key part of the costume, beyond the head-to-toe fabric, was the beak.

And a sharp chicken beak is nothing to be trifled with either.

The Duck Dynasty congressman got caught sticking his beak in the wrong place.

Leroy had survived, but had an injured wing and a scuffed beak.

I also like a bird's beak knife, for fiddly decorative things like making radish flowers and skinning apples in one long peel.

Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

Jehosophat kicked at him with his wet feet, and tried to grab the fat red nose that hung down over the turkey's beak.

A little tar and ashes in his beak was a greater kindness to him than a charge of bird shot.

The peculiarity of their beak consists in the lower mandible being considerably longer than the other into which it shuts.

To prevent the water rushing into its throat as it skims the surface with its beak, the bird is provided with a very small gullet.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to beak, such as: snout, bill, mandible, muzzle, neb, and nib.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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