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soft-billed

soft-billed is the alternative form of softbilled.

Meaning of softbilled

Adjective

softbilled (not comparable)

  1. Of birds, preferring to feed on relatively soft foods, such as insects or fruits.
    • Most of the softbilled birds feed on insects, and not on grain or seeds, and therefore usually retire before winter; but the following, though they eat insects, remain with us during the whole year […]1824, T. Forster, editor, The Perennial Calendar and Companion to the Almanack; Illustrating the Events of Every Day in the Year as Connected With History, Chronology, Botany, Natural History...
    Antonyms:
    hardbilled

Questions about soft-billed

What is soft-billed the alternative form of?
Soft-billed is the alternative form of softbilled.

Words near soft-billed in the dictionary

  1. soft waters
  2. soft wheat
  3. soft wheats
  4. soft X-ray
  5. soft X-rays
  6. soft-billed
  7. soft-block
  8. soft-blocked
  9. soft-blocking
  10. soft-blocks
  11. soft-boiled

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