duckbilled

See also: duck-billed

English

Etymology

From duck +‎ billed.

Adjective

duckbilled (not comparable)

1. Having a bill like that of a duck.
   • 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The third group of mammals, the monotremes, claims a measly three distinct animals, and all are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea: the duckbilled platypus and the long-beaked and short-beaked echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters.

   • 2005, Carson Creagh, Simone Ende, Angela Milner, Dinosaurs:

     The duckbilled dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) had broad, ducklike beaks. They walked or ran on their hind legs, and leaned down on their shorter front legs to graze on vegetation.

Alternative forms

• duck-billed