beard
/bɪɹd/ noun B1- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- The hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- The long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn. · the beard of grain
- Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.
Plural beards
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The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards.
There was a soldier before the door, dressed in a green uniform and wearing a long green beard.
If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.”
It was that of a man about forty-three or forty-four years of age, middle-sized, broad shouldered, with crisp curling black hair, and a short stubbly beard.
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