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BILLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does billed mean?
• BILLED (adjective)
The adjective BILLED has 1 sense:
1. having a beak or bill as specified
Familiarity information: BILLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a beak or bill as specified
Context example:
a long-billed cap
Similar:
beaked (having or resembling a beak)
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
Context examples
The scientists reached this conclusion by comparing CT scans of the teeth of dinosaur embryos of two different species, the Protoceratops andrewsi, which has eggs weighing under 200 grams, and Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that has eggs twenty times that size.
(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)
A joint research team from the University of Calgary, American Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University announced Monday that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs such as the duck-billed dinosaur took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed.
(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)
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