straight-billed

1. 1.

   having a straight beak

   Similarbeaked

Questions about straight-billed

What does straight-billed mean?

straight-billed means "having a straight beak".

How many syllables are in straight-billed?

straight-billed has 2 syllables and divides as straight--billed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is straight-billed a common word?

straight-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.