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Definition of Billed
1. Adjective. Having a beak or bill as specified. "A long-billed cap"
Definition of Billed
1. a. Furnished with, or having, a bill, as a bird; -- used in composition; as, broad- billed.
Definition of Billed
1. Verb. (past of bill) ¹
2. Adjective. Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Billed
1. bill [v] - See also: bill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billed
Literary usage of Billed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1916)
"MIGRATION OF THE YELLOW-billed LOON.1 BY JOSEPH DIXON. ... \Ye naturally observed
the arrival of the Yellow-billed Loons with interest, and, during the time ..."
2. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"The flight of this species is swifter than that of its near relative, the
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, for which bird it is easily mistaken by ordinary observers. ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"The Long-billed Curlew is a constant resident in the southern districts of the
United States, whereas the other species are only autumnal and winter ..."
4. Birds of California: An Introduction to More Than Three Hundred Common Birds by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock (1903)
"ALTHOUGH the Ring-billed Gull is a more or locally common species in every part
of the United States, it is more abundant on the Atlantic than on the ..."
5. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1844)
"The following description, however, is taken from one in my own possession.
The species is said to occur on the north-west coast. KNOBBED-billed ..."
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