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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characters assigned to the Cuvierian Dentirostres.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See
Illust. (N ) underbeak .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having a
toothed bill .
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