billed

See also: billed-

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪld/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪld
• Homophone: build

Verb

billed

1. simple past and past participle of bill

Derived terms

• unbilled

Adjective

billed (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
   • 1894 March, Arthur Morrison, “Zig-Zag Scansorial”, Zig-Zags at the Zoo (XXI), in The Strand Magazine, volume 7, number 39, London: G. Newnes, page 247:

     The toucan will not talk in the manner of the parrot, but he (or she) is an admirable listener. I have told the green-billed toucan many stories of bird-scandal without interruption, and, on the whole, the conversation has been most improving.

Derived terms

• black-billed capercaillie
• black-billed flycatcher
• black-billed magpie
• blue-billed duck
• broad-billed flycatcher
• broad-billed moa
• broad-billed parrot
• broad-billed sandpiper
• brown-billed scythebill
• channel-billed cuckoo
• curve-billed thrasher
• curve-billed tinamou
• duck-billed
• duck-billed cat
• duck-billed dinosaur
• duck-billed platypus
• golden-billed saltator
• gull-billed tern
• hawk-billed
• ivory-billed woodpecker
• large-billed scrubwren
• long-billed
• long-billed dowitcher
• paint-billed crake
• pied-billed grebe
• pink-billed lark
• prong-billed barbet
• razor-billed auk
• razor-billed curassow
• recurve-billed bushbird
• red-billed
• red-billed gull
• red-billed leiothrix
• red-billed woodcreeper
• ring-billed gull
• saddle-billed stork
• short-billed dowitcher
• short-billed marsh wren
• sickle-billed vanga
• Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
• slender-billed curlew
• slender-billed greenfinch
• slender-billed gull
• small-billed tinamou
• softbilled
• soft-billed
• spoon-billed
• spot-billed pelican
• stork-billed
• sword-billed hummingbird
• thick-billed green pigeon
• thick-billed longspur
• thick-billed murre
• thick-billed seedeater
• tooth-billed pigeon
• white-billed diver
• wry-billed plover
• yellow-billed chough
• yellow-billed cuckoo
• yellow-billed duck
• yellow-billed egret
• yellow-billed grosbeak
• yellow-billed kite
• yellow-billed loon
• yellow-billed spoonbill
• yellow-billed teal
• yellow-billed tit-tyrant

Further reading

• “billed, adj.”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “billed, adj.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “billed, adj.”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “billed, adj.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.