beard
/bɪəd/
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck
- plural
- beards
Meanings
- 1
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck
Tom is growing a beard.
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Tom has a long beard.
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- 2
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birdsrare
- 3
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishesrare
- 4
The byssus of certain shellfishrare
- 5
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oysterrare
- 6
The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterfliesrare
- 7
The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awnrare
- 8
Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkeyrare
- 9
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn outrare
- 10
The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandlerare