Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hard-bill

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables: hard--bill
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bird species which has a hard, strong bill, to feed (mainly) on seeds and/or nuts

Example Sentences

"As the ultimate hard-bills, woodpeckers even use their steel-hard bill to drill homes in solid trees"

Inflected Forms

hard-bills (plural)

Synonyms

seedeater

Antonyms

soft-bill

Questions

What does hard-bill mean?: A bird species which has a hard, strong bill, to feed (mainly) on seeds and/or nuts

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