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Meanings of hawkbill in English
Portuguese
tartaruga-de-pente Catalan
carei Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell.
Synonyms
Examples for "hawksbill"
Examples for "hawksbill"
1
Other turtles which nest there are the hawksbill and the Oliver Ridley.
2
Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
3
It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
4
National conservation measures are not enough to protect critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle populations in the Pacific.
5
Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
1
Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
2
It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
3
Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
4
Species such as the hawksbill turtle are dependent on coral reefs which are bleaching and dying with climate change.
5
The Hawksbill Turtle is distinguished by the hawk-like appearance of its head.
Usage of hawkbill in English
1
The hawkbill slashed down, cutting open Pemberton's front pant pocket and freeing the twenty-dollar gold piece.
2
A hawkbill knife was found near him.
3
He took the hawkbill knife from his pocket and freed the blade with the same slow deliberateness he might undo a bow.
4
And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche-de-mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks.
5
It was Chainday the twentieth, or the seventh Skydi of Hawkbill-Bellis no longer cared which.
6
It was the evening of the tenth Scabdi of Hawkbill, the last day of the quarto-a festival.
7
"I figured it would," Galloway said, taking a hawkbill knife from his right pocket.
8
Hawkbill gave Godolphin their first win in the Coral-Eclipse since 2004 when coming out on top in a thrilling finish to the Sandown Group One.
Frequent collocations
Translations for hawkbill
Catalan
Hawkbill through the time