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A crown of richly colored feathers fringed her head and neck, trailing away from her beaked face and keen eyes.

But it is easier to hear the baleen whale, with its lower-frequency call, than the beaked whales, says Theriault.

For people interested in cetacean evolution the most perplexing problem has always been: Why are there so many species of [beaked whale]?

any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.

The Australian short-beaked echidna, a monotreme, is one of the oldest living mammals on earth.

A yellow- beaked Eastern white egret mixes with a flock of the little egrets.

stigmas slightly flat at top, narrowly margined on lateral sides, shortly beaked in front, beak erect, with a smaller stigma hole at tip.

A golden heron, beaked and gamed black, standing with a silver fish in its beak, on pink.

Beaked whales and the narwhal are the only cetacean species with tusks, according to Baker.

stigmas slightly thickened and narrowly margined on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked in front, with a stigma hole at tip of beak.

stigmas conspicuously margined on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked in front, with a larger stigma hole at tip of beak.

stigmas margined on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked in front, beak nearly erect, with a rounded stigma hole at tip.

Style somewhat geniculate at base, clavate, apex flat, broadened on both sides and distinctly margined, somewhat erectly beaked in front.

any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects.

stigmas flat at top, with obtuse margin on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked in front, with an upward stigma hole at tip of beak.

styles clavate; stigmas narrowly margined on lateral sides, shortly beaked in front, beak erect, with smaller stigma hole at tip.

A very large marine turtle (Caretta caretta) inhabiting warm ocean waters and having a large, beaked head.

stigmas curved forward and thickly beaked in front, with a large stigma hole at tip of beak.

The brows were so drawn that there were two deep lines above the beaked nose, and the chin was thrust forward defiantly.

"[Male beaked whales] of different species are rather similar in size and appearance, " Baker said.

upper sepal galeate-hemispheric, beaked, lower margin suberect.

follicles reddish brown with purplish red margin, 7-9 mm in diam. , with a flange, oil glands impressed when dry, apex beaked.

stigmas thickly margined on lateral sides and at apex, very shortly beaked in front, with a broad stigma hole at tip of beak.

Longer stamens with anthers oblong to linear-oblong, base abaxially 2-tuberculate and abaxially spurred or not, apex usually beaked.

Plant with aerial stem. Stipules free, small. Flowers yellow. Anterior petal spurred. Style not beaked at apex; stigmas 2-lobed.

12A ong-beaked ibis rummages for food scraps in a bin on Sydney's tourist precinct, Circular Quay.

stigmas truncate, thickly margined on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked in front, beak horizontal.

Fruit follicles pale purplish red but pale yellow to grayish brown when dry, ca. 5 mm in diam. , oil glands small, apex not beaked.

follicles dark purplish red, ca. 5 mm in diam. , with sparse protruding oil glands, apex subrounded or shortly beaked.

"Up until now, the purpose of the beaked whale tusks has been mysterious, " he added.

Caption : Spilled guts: After being cleaned, this 10-meter Baird's beaked whale receives a long incision to prepare for slaughtering.

Kiwi, long-beaked chicken-sized birds that cannot fly, live only in New Zealand.

stigmas flat at top, narrowly margined on lateral sides and abaxially, very shortly beaked in front. Capsules unknown.

Existing beaked whale populations are found in nearly every ocean.

Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs (parrot- beaked reptiles).

In Iceland, millions of fat-beaked birds form the world's largest colony of Atlantic puffins.

Pedicel and sepals glabrous; drupe beaked.

stigmas narrowly margined on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked in front.

follicles reddish brown, becoming brownish black when dry, 5-6 mm in diam. , oil glands slightly protruding, apex beaked.

follicles reddish brown, ca. 5 mm in diam. , oil glands large and impressed, apex not beaked.

Seeds flat, not beaked, coma early deciduous.

lobes 4, spreading or upright, valvate, usually cucullate and beaked at apex.

stigmas slightly 2-lobed, lobes narrow and slightly thick, slightly raised in central part, shortly beaked in front. Capsule ca. 5 mm.

Female beaked whales' apparent attraction to the tusks may have spurred the development of new species.

Capsule held at right angle to pedicel, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 3 cm, apex long beaked.

Follicles erect, oblong, ca. 4 mm, base attenuate, apex shortly beaked.

The Peruvian beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvians ) was unknown to science until 1976 and not formally described until 1990.

stigma 1, rarely 2-cleft, globose, apex obtuse or acute, beaked or brush like, lateral or terminal.

upper sepal navicular, abaxially glabrous, shortly beaked, ca. 2 cm from base to beak.

upper sepal galeate or navicular-galeate, shortly beaked, 1. 8--2 cm from base to beak, lower margin subject or slightly concave.

Capsule oblong-ellipsoid, 5-7 cm, apex beaked; seeds aggregated into groups.

The beaked creature weighed about 1. 5 tons (1. 4 metric tons) and is the biggest toothless dinosaur found to date.

follicles purplish red, 6-7 mm, oil glands impressed when dry, apex beaked.

Capsule globose, ca. 1. 5 cm in diam. , densely spiny, apex shortly beaked.

upper sepal galeate-navicular, shortly beaked, ca. 1. 8 cm from base to beak.

upper sepal high gallate, ca. 1. 5 cm high, beaked, lower margin subject.

follicles pale purplish red to dark red, 4. 5-5 cm in diam. , oil glands impressed when dry, apex beaked.

upper sepal galeate, ca. 1 cm high, shortly beaked, ca. 1. 4 cm from base to beak, lower margin subject.

upper sepal navicular-gallate or navicular, shortly beaked, 2. 7--3. 1 cm from base to beak, lower margin erect or concave.

Berry ca. 1. 6 cm, tomentose, very shortly beaked.

Mature mericarps inflated, apex rounded, not beaked, wall thin, membranous; petals 0. 6-1 cm.

22 (21) Ovary and capsule beaked at summit.

follicles dark blackish brown when dry, 0. 5-1. 5 cm in diam. , rugulose, oil glands inconspicuous, apex beaked.

upper sepal galeate, 1. 5--2 cm high, shortly beaked, ca. 1. 4 cm from base to beak, external margin subject.

Capsule ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, 3. 5-4. 5 cm, 8-valved, densely yellowish stellate tomentulose, apex acute or longer beaked.

Leaf blade palmately (3 or)5(or 7)-lobed; epicalyx lobes wider than long, 6-8-toothed near apex; capsule ovoid, apex beaked.

Ovary glabrous. Fruit base contracted into a short stipe, apex markedly beaked;

Mute swans have orange beak, black- beaked verrucous sudden, neck curved wings upward uplift;

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Fruit a berry, indehiscent, apex sometimes beaked;

Style terminal on ovary, 2-cleft nearly to base, ca. as long as corolla, persistent, beaked in fruit;

Fruit a drupe, large, subglobose, beaked at apex, indehiscent or slightly dehiscent at base, 3-seeded;

Female flowers: perianth tubular, often ovoid and beaked, constricted and 2-4-toothed at apex;

Anthers of shorter stamen oblong, apex not beaked, 2-setose at base;

He is a hard-beaked hawk on defence

upper sepal falcate, ca. 5 mm wide, shortly beaked, 1. 5--2 cm from base to beak, lower margin subject. Petals glabrous;