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Definition of Hawkbill
1. Noun. Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell.
Generic synonyms: Marine Turtle, Sea Turtle
Group relationships: Eretmochelys, Genus Eretmochelys
Definition of Hawkbill
1. n. A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.
Definition of Hawkbill
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of hawksbill) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawkbill
1. a sea turtle [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hawkbill
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkbill
Literary usage of Hawkbill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1889)
""I was told of a hybrid between the hawkbill and the Loggerhead, on which the
shell was good often, but not always, and the head resembled that of the ..."
2. Elements of Zoology by Charles Frederick Holder, Joseph Bassett Holder (1885)
"The hawkbill f (Fig. 266) is distinguished * The gigantic extinct ... Though the
hawkbill is a vegetable feeder as a rule, they sometimes attack the ..."
3. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"The popular name is derived not so much from the external colour, which is mostly
a dark olive, passing into dingy white, as 1, hawkbill Turtle ..."
4. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"From the hawkbill-turtle (Fig. 256) comes the tortoise shell used in certain
ornaments. In the leather-back the shields are incompletely ossified. ..."
5. In Austraian Tropics by Alfred Searcy (1907)
"Turtle, both greenback and the hawkbill, are plentiful in the waters round about
Port Darwin. The niggers frequently brought them in. ..."
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