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Meanings of short-beaked in English
Synonyms
Examples for "short-billed"
Examples for "short-billed"
1
The sportsmen of the Beagle unanimously called it the short-billed snipe.
2
He made sure his short-billed forager's cap was pulled down tightly on his head.
3
It's a short-billed snipe, a corvus, a real corvus.
4
Heemskerk pushed his short-billed cap back on his close-cropped head, leaned back in his chair and folded his hands over his comfortable stomach.
5
Kwong's massive body was silhouetted against a salmon-colored sky, his face dark with shadow under a short-billed cloth cap tied with earflaps under his chin.
Usage of short-beaked in English
1
There's four species, including one in Australia called the short-beaked echidna.
2
A lone short-beaked common dolphin has been spotted in Akaroa Harbour.
3
Barbs may properly be called short-beaked Carriers.
4
We assume this short-beaked common dolphin has joined this pod for protection or to find food, Mr Crosbie said.
5
In Aldrovandi's time, in 1600, two sub-breeds existed; but one of them, the short-beaked, is now extinct in Europe.
6
Sir W. Elliot, however, informs me that he has seen in Madras a short-beaked Runt imported from Cairo.]
7
Barbs, in short, may be called short-beaked Carriers, bearing the same relation to Carriers that the Tronfo of Aldrovandi does to the common Runt.]
8
But fears of their imminent disappearance appear to have diminished after a 2007 survey showed 135 of the little-known species of short-beaked dolphins in Chilika.
9
Short-beaked echidnas are smaller and have longer hair than long-beaked echidnas.
10
Short-beaked common dolphins feed on a variety of prey, including surface schooling fish species and small mid-water fish and squids.
11
Short-beaked echidnas seek refuge and, when finding it, lower their body temperature and limit activity, so reducing the amount of food they need for energy.