slender-beakedadj.
Having a slender beak.
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long-billed1594
latirostrous1646
bill-twisteda1657
spoon-billed1668
hook-billed1695
slender-billed1769
thick-billed1770
bow-beaked1791
boat-billed1821
slender-beaked1824
tenuirostral1837
broad-billed1839
planirostrate1858
tenuirostrate1860
planirostral1890
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 158 Slender-beaked Sandpiper.
1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 382 Delphinus Rostratus (Slender-beaked Dolphin).
1859 A. Pratt Brit. Grasses & Sedges 41 Slender-beaked Bottle Sedge.
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 197 The Slender-beaked Spider Crab (Stenorhynchus tenuirostris).
1896 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. V. 513 The slender-beaked sturgeon (Psephurus gladius).
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