The decurved bill of a curlew. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Like Podoces, P. humilis possesses a slender, decurved bill, pale brown plumage and a dry, open-country habitat. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
As I'm staring out at the sport fishing boats through the haze, a line of four large brownish shorebirds with decurved bills flies by. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday July 28 -- Stairs and the Usual Suspects] Reference
The zygomatic (quadratojugal) is greatly decurved posteriorly, and the supratemporal is accordingly decurved also. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
But note: the claws of the two hind toes are not so sharply decurved, nor so acute at the points, the finger slipping readily over them. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
SITTING ON THE PORCH with a cup of ginger tea, my journal, and bird book, I am watching through my binoculars what I believe to be sunbirds in the garden-elegant, purple-iridescent birds with a decurved bill. From Wordnik.com. [Orion Magazine Articles] Reference
My field-glass was soon fixed upon him, revealing a little bird with a long beak, decurved at the end, a grayish-brown coat quite thickly barred and mottled on the wings and tail, and a vest of warm white finely sprinkled with a dusky gray. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
These researches ended in a conviction that nothing like this construction pertained to the Mastodon, whose lower jaw ends in a distinctly decurved extremity, simply suited to give attachment to the muscles of a lip; as is evident on re - ferring to a specimen or to any authentic engraving. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
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