beccal

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/ˈbɛkəl/

adjective

Pertaining to a beak or bill.

OriginLatin beccus →
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Meanings

adjectivebeccal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to a beak or bill.

    It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-beccal Fricatives […]

    1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375

Origin

  1. Latinbeccus“beak”
  2. Englishbeccal

From Latin beccus (“beak”).

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APA

beccal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beccal

MLA

“beccal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beccal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beccal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beccal.

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