duckbill

Meaning

  1. (informal) The duck-billed platypus.
  2. (informal) A hadrosaur.
  3. A fish of the family Percophidae
  4. A fish of the family Percophidae
  5. Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
  6. A device used to force padlocks.
  7. A check valve with two or more flaps, usually shaped like a duck's beak, commonly used in medical applications to prevent contamination due to backflow.
  8. A kind of surgical mask with a trapezoid pouch-like design with shortened or absent side edges.

Synonyms

duckbilled platypus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

Polyodon spathula

bullray

duckbill ray

spoonbill catfish

bull ray

Translations

πλατύπους

خلد الماء

afrikanischer Adlerrochen

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

platypus

polyodontidae

Kuhrochen

ornitorinc

Etymology

From duck + bill.

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