duck-billed
Flat, wide-mouthed
Duck-billed describes something shaped like a duck's bill—flat, broad, and rounded at the end.
The word appears most often in the name of the duck-billed platypus, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia.
Paleontologists also speak of duck-billed dinosaurs, whose flattened snouts resembled a duck's beak: The duck-billed hadrosaurs were herbivores.
Made smooth or level
- spatulateWide and rounded terminally
- broadWide in span
- elongatedStretched beyond usual dimensions
- sensoryRelated to perception
nostrils · snout · muzzle · cartilaginous · rubbery · pliable · distinctive · specialized
Egg-laying mammal
- egg-layingReproducing via external ova
- venomousProducing injected toxins
- webbedConnected by membrane
- semiaquaticPartially water-living
burrowing · nocturnal · endemic · Australian · Tasmanian · spur · leathery · bizarre
Beaked herbivorous dinosaur
- herbivorePlant-only consumer
- CretaceousFinal Mesozoic period
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
flattened
Made smooth or level
sensory · nostrils · snout · muzzle · cartilaginous · rubbery · pliable · distinctive · specialized · foraging
monotreme
Egg-laying mammal
- egg-layingReproducing via external ova
- venomousProducing injected toxins
- webbedConnected by membrane
semiaquatic · burrowing · nocturnal · endemic · Australian · Tasmanian · spur · leathery · bizarre · primitive
hadrosaur
Beaked herbivorous dinosaur
- herbivorePlant-only consumer
- CretaceousFinal Mesozoic period
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
prehistoric · extinct · crest · grazing · herd · Mesozoic · paleontology