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beccal

/ˈbɛkəl/

beccal adjective: pertaining to a beak or bill.

Adjective

beccal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a beak or bill.
    • It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-beccal Fricatives […]1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375

Origin of beccal

From Latin beccus (“beak”).

Questions about beccal

What does beccal mean?
Beccal means pertaining to a beak or bill.
What part of speech is beccal?
Beccal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce beccal?
Beccal is pronounced /ˈbɛkəl/.

Words near beccal in the dictionary

  1. becauseness
  2. Becca
  3. beccafico
  4. beccaficoes
  5. beccaficos
  6. beccal
  7. Beccari
  8. Beccarian
  9. Beccarian bodies
  10. Beccarian body
  11. Becchi's test

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