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单词 duck-bill
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duck-billn.

Etymology: < duck n.1 + bill n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈduck-bill.
a. Red wheat; more fully duck-bill wheat.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > wheat > types of wheat grain or plant
spelta1000
farc1420
ador?1440
flaxen wheat?1523
Peak-wheat?1523
red wheat?1523
white wheat?1523
duck-bill wheat1553
zea1562
alica1565
buck1577
amelcorn1578
horse-flower1578
tiphe1578
pollard1580
rivet1580
Saracen's corn1585
French wheat1593
Lammas-wheat1594
starch corn1597
St. Peter's corn1597
frumenty1600
secourgeon1600
polwheat1601
duck-wheat1611
kidneys of wheat1611
ograve wheat1616
soft wheat1640
cone-wheat1677
Lammas1677
Poland wheat1686
Saracen corn1687
pole rivet1707
Smyrna wheat1735
hard wheat1757
hen corn1765
velvet wheat1771
white straw1771
nonpareil1805
thick-set wheat1808
cone1826
farro1828
Polish wheat1832
velvet-ear wheat1837
sarrasin1840
mummy wheat1842
snowdrop1844
Red Fife1857
flint-wheat1859
dinkel1866
thick-set1875
spring1884
macaroni wheat1901
einkorn1904
marquis1906
durum1908
emmer1908
hedgehog wheat1909
speltoid1939
1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 20/2 Ador, is also an other kinde of wheate..whiche we doo nowe call duckebill.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 60 Red Wheate is called in Kent Duckbill Wheate.
c1680 Enquiries 2/2 Wheat—Square gray with ailes, otherwise called Dunovex, Duck-bill Wheat, and Duke wheat.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 32 The cultivation of..Duck-Bill, or Conical-Wheat—Triticum turgidum—has been attempted in England.
b. The broad-toed shoe worn in the 15th cent.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific shaped toes
duck-bill1834
wing-tip1872
razor toe1895
point shoe1910
winkle-picker1960
1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 202 When men became tired of these pointed shoes..they adopted others in their stead denominated duck-bills.
c. = Duck-billed platypus: see below.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > [noun] > group Prototheria or Monotremata > duck-billed platypus
platypus1799
ornithorhynchus1800
water mole1800
paradox1815
duck-bill1840
tambreet1840
duck-billed platypus1847
duck-mole1875
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 28/1 Ornithorhynchus, Blumenbach's name for that extraordinary quadrupedal form, The Duckbill or Duckbilled Platypus.
1850 J. B. Clutterbuck Port Phillip iii. 42 Platypus, water-mole or duckbill.
d. duck-bill speculum, a speculum flattened like a duck's bill.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > dilator or speculum
tendiculec1425
speculum1598
dilatator1611
dilatatory1611
dilater1634
dilator1688
diopter1706
quadrivalve1852
duck-bill speculum1879
proctoscope1896
the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > by physical means > of specific parts or using specific instruments > specific examining instruments
speculum1598
diopter1706
otoscope1853
stomatoscope1853
laparoscope1855
cardioscope1856
sphygmoscope1856
stereoscope1857
laryngoscope1860
pharyngoscope1861
rhinoscope1861
autolaryngoscope1863
vaginoscope1863
oesophagoscope1868
photophore1871
rectoscope1871
endoscope1872
autoscope1873
glottiscope1876
polyscope1878
duck-bill speculum1879
tracer1882
diaphanoscope1883
gastroscope1888
cystoscope1889
kinetoskotoscope1896
photoscope1896
proctoscope1896
bronchoscope1899
sigmoidoscope1900
arthroscope1925
peritoneoscope1939
toposcope1951
fibrescope1954
mediastinoscope1966
fetoscope1968
angioscope1980
1879 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women iii. 31 The duck-bill speculum is the best.
1882 Quain's Dict. Med. 1778 Another form of speculum much used of late years..is the ‘duck-bill’ speculum.
e. duck-bill (scraper), Archaeology, a scraper (sense 4e) flattened like a duck's bill.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > scraper
scrapple1354
grate14..
scraper1552
grater1580
slick1883
duck-bill1911
1911 J. Chambers Stone Age Lake Lothing 11 Here are disc-shaped and duckbill scrapers.
1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. viii. 206 Another form of scraper made on a blade is known as a ‘duck-bill’.

Derivatives

duck-billed adj. having a bill like a duck.
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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 15 The platypus or ornithorhyncus as he [sc. Blumenbach] calls it, that most extraordinary duck-billed quadruped which has lately been discovered in Australasia.
1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 35 Know ye the land contrariety sways..Where black swans..With water-rats, duck-billed, come forth to the day?
duck-billed platypus n. the Ornithorhynchus of Australia, a monotrematous mammal having a horny beak resembling the bill of a duck.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > [noun] > group Prototheria or Monotremata > duck-billed platypus
platypus1799
ornithorhynchus1800
water mole1800
paradox1815
duck-bill1840
tambreet1840
duck-billed platypus1847
duck-mole1875
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §317 The Ornithorhyncus or Duck-billed Platypus, the Water Mole of the Colonist.
duck-billed cat n. the paddle-fish ( Polyodon spatula).
duck-billed speculum n. see duck-bill speculum at sense d.

Draft additions January 2005

More fully duck-bill dinosaur. = duck-billed dinosaur n. at Additions.
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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > Ornithopoda > member of
ornithopod1890
duck-bill1913
duck-billed dinosaur1913
1913 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 32 395 I suspect, from the similarity of the pelves, that like Saurolophus, it was a crested duck-bill.
1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) xii. 88 One of the main characters of this group of dinosaurs is that they had bills like those of ducks at the front of the mouth; the family is often called the duck-bill dinosaurs.
1989 Nature Conservancy Mar. 40/1 The discovery of duckbill dinosaur nests and young..is one of the greatest finds of our century.

Draft additions January 2005

duck-billed dinosaur n. a hadrosaurid dinosaur; cf. duck-bill dinosaur at Additions.
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the world > animals > reptiles > extinct reptiles and dinosaurs > [noun] > Sauria > Ornithopoda > member of
ornithopod1890
duck-bill1913
duck-billed dinosaur1913
1913 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 32 387 (title) The skeleton of Saurolophus, a crested duck-billed dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous.
2001 D. Burnie Kingfisher Illustr. Dinosaur Encycl. 106/2 Lambeosaurus is the largest duck-billed dinosaur so far discovered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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