The duck-bill is a near kinsman of the porcupine ant-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

The duck-bill may well boast of its sting, because the honey-bee of Australia has none.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Stranger still, the female duck-bill lays eggs, but nurses her young after the eggs are hatched!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

I will have nightmares about her collagen-plumped duck-bill lips for the rest of my boring white-girl life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small wonder] Reference

Another, the platypus, or duck-bill, has the bill and webbed feet of a duck and the body and tail of a beaver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The duck-bill carries a hinged spur on the hind legs, which also is a sting that injects a violent poison into whatever it strikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Australia, while the feet of the duck-bill are even more boldly webbed than those of the bird from which it takes its popular name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference

He wore a cloth, duck-bill cap and a soiled, striped shirt, and his face was beaded with perspiration from the heat inside the closed car.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference

In “Furious Seasons,” Frank is “a big man, with a thick quilted jacket zipped up to his chin and a brown duck-bill cap that made him look like a grim umpire.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Carver] Reference

Increasing the effective length of the spillway crest by employing, in principle, the duck-bill weir arrangement previously described (the crest in this case has a zig-zig configuration, in plan) can also reduce the height of flood-rise, thereby increasing live storage capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 16] Reference

Most of them had got a sprinkling, and the otter and the duck-bill brute were simply soaked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wouldbegoods] Reference

As such, the tyrannosaur ate what of the buried duck-bill it could - in other words, it scavenged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

The rocks in which Coahuilaceratops was found also contain large fossil deposits of jumbled duck-bill dinosaur skeletons.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Along with the strange appearance - the eponymous duck-bill, peculiar skull ornaments, and long, slender forelimbs - scientists have argued about how they might have moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Thus, before New Holland was discovered, all swans were supposed to be white, all mammals incapable of laying eggs; now we know that there are black swans and that the duck-bill lays eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference

Otis states that it was not until the wars of Augustus that Heras of Cappadocia designed the famous duck-bill forceps which, with every conceivable modification, has continued in use until our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

It was to be a water-fall, but it ran between the steps and was only wet and messy; so we got father's mackintosh and uncle's and covered the steps with them, so that the water ran down all right and was glorious, and it ran away in a stream across the grass where we had dug a little channel for it – and the otter and the duck-bill thing were as if in their native haunts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wouldbegoods] Reference

"Fitted a two-eyed plough instead of a duck-bill plough, and with much difficulty made my chariot wheel-horses plough.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services] Reference

The duck-bill – what's its name?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wouldbegoods] Reference

The duck-bill -- what's its name?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wouldbegoods] Reference

It is a fish, for it lives in the river half the time; it is a land animal, for it resides on the land half the time; it is an amphibian, since it likes both and does not know which it prefers; it is a hybernian, for when times are dull and nothing much going on it buries itself under the mud at the bottom of a puddle and hybernates there a couple of weeks at a time; it is a kind of duck, for it has a duck-bill and four webbed paddles; it is a fish and quadruped together, for in the water it swims with the paddles and on shore it paws itself across country with them; it is a kind of seal, for it has a seal's fur; it is carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous, and vermifuginous, for it eats fish and grass and butterflies, and in the season digs worms out of the mud and devours them; it is clearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Following the Equator] Reference