Illustration: In a Japanese apartment living room, a small pet parakeet stands on its owner's finger and grips a single millet seed in its curved beak. The owner holds a millet spray nearby, watching as the bird works the seed between the clearly visible upper and lower parts of its bill.

くちばし

kuchibashi

beak, bill

Example sentences

きつつきは、長ながく尖とがったくちばしで、木きの幹みきをつついて、中なかにいる虫むしを食たべます。
Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
鳥とりにはくちばしがあります。
Birds have beaks.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
くちばしは鋭く、先が鉤状に曲がっており、魚を捕らえるのに適している。
Their sharp, hooked beaks are suitable for catching fish.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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