A grizzled man with a beaklike nose. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The soft tissues of its snout have worn away, leaving the "beaklike" front of its jaw exposed. From Wordnik.com. [December 2008] Reference
The flexible beaklike jaws have differentiated into teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Heorot]
Jetanien made nervous clicking noises with his beaklike proboscis. From Wordnik.com. [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference
He had a long graying beard, scraggly eyebrows, and a beaklike nose. From Wordnik.com. [Half Broke Horses] Reference
Dr. Barlow gestured at the beaklike prow before them, at monstrous heads belching fire. From Wordnik.com. [Behemoth] Reference
Many of the invertebrate-eaters have beaklike mouths, strong jaws, and pharyngeal teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean] Reference
From his perch, he looked down his beaklike nose at Kennedy and said, “You may be seated.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Option] Reference
Loss of facial substance had thrown her cheekbones and her beaklike nose into gaunt prominence. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Chelon, RigelianBipedal species with leathery carapace, beaklike proboscis, unexpressive faces. From Wordnik.com. [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference
It was a sleek black Concorde-like jetliner with a sharp beaklike nose and missiles on its wings. From Wordnik.com. [THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS] Reference
He said something but the commander of the Mexico could only see the movements of the beaklike mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Mission Moluk]
He tried to control the nervous rapid clicking of his beaklike proboscis, but it refused to be still. From Wordnik.com. [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference
Another remarkable feature was the fringe of palps, or small tentacles, surrounding the beaklike mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Songs of Distant Earth]
She had an enormous beaklike nose and bright black eyes that glittered at me as though daring me to rebuff her. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificent Pigs] Reference
The Chelon rubbed his beaklike mouth back and forth, making a soft grinding sound as he strode toward Reyess desk. From Wordnik.com. [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference
Then it swung northward again to run near the wave-pounded verge of the beaklike, westernmost arm of the Lake of Unknown Depths. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
The snapping-turtle face of the Sivak showed nothing, not even surprise, until blood streamed from beneath his beaklike upper lip. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
For the second time that day Cocytan eyes fluttered open, the beaklike mouth twitched, and an inhuman respiratory system manipulated air. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
They had low, receding foreheads, huge, beaklike noses, and undershot jaws; their eyes were small and close set, their ears flat and slightly pointed. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates of Venus]
He wore his gray beard trimmed to a point, and inside his beaklike nose was a quantity of grayish-yellow hair which made a very disagreeable impression on me. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
One of them fitted Frodo well enough, a black cap with iron rim, and iron hoops covered with leather upon which the evil Eye was painted in red above the beaklike nose-guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Amou used to refer to her as Senhora do Passaro, “Bird Lady,” because of her fragile bone structure and the way her nose had turned downward with age and become beaklike. From Wordnik.com. [Willow] Reference
The Penguin, a bulbous Humpty Dumpty of a figure with flipper hands and a beaklike nose, emerges from his lifelong lair in the sewers, pretending to search for his parents, and is persuaded to run for mayor. From Wordnik.com. [A Gotham Gothic] Reference
From this picture showing the "monster's" back, limbs and tail and beaklike head process, it looks like it could be a turtle - except turtles don't have that type of teeth, and the hindquarters are very mammal-like. From Wordnik.com. [December 2008] Reference
One drop hung like a jewel to the tip of his beaklike nose. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference
He had the leader's beaklike nose, a handsome form of it, like Alexander's, not like Attila's. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference
A small amount of nose putty had altered the shape of the nose, giving Tuppence an unexpectedly beaklike profile. From Wordnik.com. [N or M]
All of the performing "porpoises" in aquariums are really bottle-nosed dolphins, and can be identified by their beaklike snouts. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was a tall, gray gentleman, with sharp eyes and a beaklike nose, and he looked wonderfully stern and implacable unless he smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Corner House Girls at School] Reference
In spite of the tight-lipped mouth, the beaklike nose, and the small, gleaming eyes, there was something about his face which intensified his age. From Wordnik.com. [Harrigan] Reference
By experimenting with his staff, however, he found that he could bring it to a halt by reaching forward and striking the thing upon its beaklike snout. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan the Terrible] Reference
The spacious yet largely useless plaza and the beaklike porch occupy land slated in the Gehry plan for an iconic commercial tower once dubbed Miss Brooklyn. From Wordnik.com. [No Land Grab] Reference
Yet, Bennu’s nose did seem more beaklike than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Welkening] Reference
A few more were coming toward him—sharp, sneering, beaklike women’s faces on vulture bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Furies] Reference
The girl he’d known for two decades had always been something of an ugly duckling—skinny and plain, with a beaklike, overly large nose. From Wordnik.com. [Malice] Reference
Its beaklike mouth snatched up the python. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
Rudin pointed his beaklike nose at Stansfield. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Option] Reference
—the dark beaklike face of Vulture appeared. From Wordnik.com. [THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS] Reference
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