Definition of Beakless

1. Adjective. Not having a beak or bill.

Antonyms: Beaked

Definition of Beakless

1. beak [adj] - See also: beak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beakless

beaker cell
beaker people
beakerful
beakerfuls
beakers
beakersful
beakful
beakfuls
beakhead
beakheads
beakier
beakiest
beaking
beakiron
beakirons
beakless (current term)
beaklike
beaks
beaky
beal
beam
beam-beam reaction
beam-ends
beam-plasma reaction
beam-wall reaction
beam balance
beam dump
beam of light
beam scale
beam splitter

Literary usage of Beakless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The corolla of all the florets Î8 ligulate ; the achenes are all of the same form, beakless, smooth or slightly hairy, having a lateral aréole ; and the ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... rough-papillose or granular, beakless ; or if beaked, the orifice not ... beakless or very short-beaked ; achenes triangular. ..."

3. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"26; nearly beakless in No. 21), firm or leathery in texture; pistillate spikes erect; stigmas 3. Uppermost spike staminate from the base to about the middle ..."

4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"... tapering to a distinct beak (nearly or quite beakless in nos. ... Perigynium with a short entire beak or beakless : plants with pubescent foliage. XXII. ..."

5. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Carpels fewer, beakless. * » Stigmas capitate : carpels mostly dehiscent at least at ... Carpels 5 to 9, beakless. — Herbs, with rounded and mostly lobed or ..."

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