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Beaked

Beaked

1. Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped. Each beaked promontory.

2. (Science: biology) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.

(Science: zoology) beaked whale, a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.


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