英语词汇“hook-bill”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hook-bill
释义	hook-bill [See bill n.¹ and n.²] 1. A bill with a hook; a billhook. 1613T. Campion Entertainm. Ld. Knowles Wks. (Bullen) 178 One of them in his hand bearing a hook-bill. 2. ‘The curved beak of a bird’ (Ogilvie). Cf. hook-nose. 3. ‘A spent male salmon whose jaws have become hooked’ (Cent. Dict.). So ˈhook-billed a., having a curved bill. 1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3080/4 Hookbil'd Ducks.1785J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. 495 Hook-billed Duck, Raii Syn. p. 150.2.1881Amer. Naturalist XV. 182 The male [of hump-back salmon] is slab-sided, hook-billed and distorted.1911Encycl. Brit. XXII. 219 Among the breeds differing in structure may be mentioned..the hook-billed and tufted ducks.
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