slender-billedadj.
Having a slender bill; tenuirostral.
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long-billed1594
latirostrous1646
bill-twisteda1657
spoon-billed1668
hook-billed1695
slender-billed1769
thick-billed1770
bow-beaked1791
boat-billed1821
slender-beaked1824
tenuirostral1837
broad-billed1839
planirostrate1858
tenuirostrate1860
planirostral1890
1769 G. White Let. 30 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 71 It ought no doubt to have gone..among your slender-billed small birds.
1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 165 Slender-billed creeper... Bill..very slender and moderately curved.
1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 251 Slender-billed Guillemot, Uria Townsendi.
1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 333 Slender-billed Fulmar, Procellaria Tenuirostris.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 83 Slender-billed Nuthatch.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 332 Slender-billed Shearwater.
1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. 109 The slender-billed cockatoos.
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