spoon-billedadj.

Etymology: Compare spoonbill n.

Having a spoon-shaped bill. Used in specific names (see quots.). Also spoon-billed butterball, spoon-billed heron, spoon-billed teal or spoon-billed widgeon, etc.

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill > of particular shape

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

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 99 Anas Platyrinchos Gesneri,..the spoon-bill'd Duck.

1844 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 178 This curious bird (a spoon-billed Tringa) described by Dr. Pearson.

1869 Ibis 5 430 A full description of the spoon~billed Sandpiper.

1886 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 261/1 The marvellous Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurinorhynchus pygmæus, whose true home has still to be discovered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

C3. In parasynthetic adjectives, as spoon-beaked, spoon-billed, spoon-fashioned, spoon-formed.

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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 6 b/2 That instrumente which we call the spoonewyse or spoonefashoned bullet-drawer.

1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 178 Myariæ—Bivalves;..a spoon-formed tooth on one or both valves.

1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 513 The spoon~beaked sturgeon (Polyodon folius) of the Mississippi.

单词	spoon-billed
释义	spoon-billedadj. Etymology: Compare spoonbill n. Having a spoon-shaped bill. Used in specific names (see quots.). Also spoon-billed butterball, spoon-billed heron, spoon-billed teal or spoon-billed widgeon, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill > of particular shape 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 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 99 Anas Platyrinchos Gesneri,..the spoon-bill'd Duck. 1844 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 178 This curious bird (a spoon-billed Tringa) described by Dr. Pearson. 1869 Ibis 5 430 A full description of the spoon~billed Sandpiper. 1886 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 261/1 The marvellous Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eurinorhynchus pygmæus, whose true home has still to be discovered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018). > as lemmas spoon-billed C3. In parasynthetic adjectives, as spoon-beaked, spoon-billed, spoon-fashioned, spoon-formed. ΚΠ 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 6 b/2 That instrumente which we call the spoonewyse or spoonefashoned bullet-drawer. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 178 Myariæ—Bivalves;..a spoon-formed tooth on one or both valves. 1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 513 The spoon~beaked sturgeon (Polyodon folius) of the Mississippi. extracted from spoonn. < adj.1668 as lemmas
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spoon-billedadj.

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