Dicionario
beak
Significado
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- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
- The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- A toe clip.
- That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
- (slang) A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
- (slang) A person's mouth.
- (slang) Cocaine.
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/biːk/
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