short-billed

1. 1.

   having a short beak

   Synonymsshort-beaked

   Similarbeaked

Questions about short-billed

What does short-billed mean?

short-billed means "having a short beak".

How many syllables are in short-billed?

short-billed has 2 syllables: short--billed. The stress falls on "short-".

What is another word for short-billed?

Close synonyms include short-beaked. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is short-billed a common word?

short-billed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.