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saw-billed

saw-billed adjective: having serrated edges to the bill.

Adjective

saw-billed (comparative more saw-billed, superlative most saw-billed)

  1. Having serrated edges to the bill.
    • We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; [...] two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 431

Forms of saw-billed

comparativemore saw-billed
superlativemost saw-billed

Questions about saw-billed

What does saw-billed mean?
Saw-billed means having serrated edges to the bill.
What part of speech is saw-billed?
Saw-billed is an adjective.

Words near saw-billed in the dictionary

  1. saw worts
  2. saw wrest
  3. saw wrests
  4. saw yellow
  5. saw'st
  6. saw-billed
  7. saw-cut
  8. saw-cuts
  9. saw-edged
  10. saw-grass
  11. saw-grasses

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