For me it all boils down to "beak or beakless" (as in the Perdue chicken factory). From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Kim: ReThink Interview: Josh Harris -- Nostradamus of the Net Tells Your Online Future] Reference
The shadow of the patrolman appeared there like a gaunt secretary-bird, black and beakless. From Wordnik.com. [The Striker Portfolio]
Some corporate poultry farms crowd a million beakless chickens in cramped dark cages, soaking up antibiotics and laying their guts out for the duration of their miserable lives. From Wordnik.com. [I Don't Like Green Eggs And Ham!] Reference
Before we could interfere he drove our pet out of his cage, and terrible was the battle that went on; the beakless bird was driven far away, and I was quite unhappy about his fate, for he was now beyond my loving care, and I never expected to see him again. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
For instance, if anyone has had a egg from a chicken allowed to eat grass and insects, you KNOW how superior it is in taste, nutrients, and humane practice to an egg laid by a beakless, stressed out hen in a CAFO, who spends her entire life in a cage so small she can't stretch her wings. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: "Last Chance to Eat"] Reference
What about humans that sustain themselves on genetically engineered beakless chickens?. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Porpoises are a very distinctive group of cetaceans, somewhat dolphin-like, small and beakless, closely related to dolphins. From Wordnik.com. [Arab Times Kuwait English Daily] Reference
Who in the world would have thought that planting a peach tree in Brown's park would result in a whole bunch of beakless birds showing up in Canada?. From Wordnik.com. [Craig Daily Press stories] Reference
Presently, in a pause, there came forward on a tall white horse a magnificently tall man, in plain but bright armour, three allerions or beakless eagles on his breast, and on his shield a violet plant, with the motto, Si douce est la violette. From Wordnik.com. [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference
Our mascot is beakless, oh noes!. From Wordnik.com. [Valentines, part the first] Reference
He struck back, and the creature was beakless. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
Of beakless things, who have no wings. From Wordnik.com. [From "The Paradise of Birds." II. Ode-To the Roc by William John Courthope] Reference
I think he meant "beakless". From Wordnik.com. [Blanket (Tour) Coverage: Cozy or Smothering?] Reference
Is large, bald, beakless, and blind. From Wordnik.com. [NH Gives Us Another Poet Laureate!] Reference
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