What does saw-billed mean?

saw-billed

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

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"We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; [...] two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus."

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