Definitions for duckbills

duckbills duck·bill

Spelling: [duhk-bil]
IPA: /ˈdʌkˌbɪl/

Duckbills is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in duckbills (bcdikllsu).

Definitions for duckbills

noun

  1. platypus.

Origin of duckbills

First recorded in 1550-60; duck1 + bill2

Examples for duckbills

A message brought Dan, who first disdained to take duckbill seriously.

The duckbill deposits her eggs in her grass-lined burrow nest and covers them with her body until they quickly hatch.

Many popular names have been given to it, such as Spadebill, Spoonbill, duckbill.

The bald proposition shook me, for I could not but see the logic of it from duckbill's standpoint.

All wood except for a duckbill furrow opener in front and two duckbill row coverers in the rear, both made of metal.

There may have been types more primitive than the duckbill, and others between the duckbill and the Marsupial.

Indeed, all, even to duckbill, would be flattered and demonstrative of pride in the alliance.

This was the duckbill, or water-mole, which the Australians called the Patybus.

The duckbill lays its eggs just like the reptile, but provides a warm nest for them at the bottom of its burrow.

It is the duckbill or duckmole, and is scientifically known as the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

Word Value for duckbills
Scrable

17

Words with friends

22

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