Meanings
adjectivesaw-billed (comparative more saw-billed, superlative most saw-billed)
comparative more saw-billed · superlative most saw-billed
- Having serrated edges to the bill.
We find two species of Eupetes, a curious Malayan genus allied to the forked-tail water-chats; [...] two species of Gracula, the Mynahs of India; and a curious little black Prionochilus, a saw-billed fruit pecker, undoubtedly allied to the Malayan form, although perhaps a distinct genus.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 431
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