a. Ornith. [See BILLED.] Having one or more tooth-like projections on the edge of the bill; dentirostral or serratirostral.
Tooth-billed bower-bird, a rare Australian bower-bird, Scenopæus dentirostris. Tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris, of the Samoan Islands.
1862. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., II. 593. Tooth-billed Pigeon…. The whole contour of the Tooth-bill is remarkable.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 223. Didunculidæ consists of the only less singular tooth-billed pigeon, Didunculus strigirostris.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 18 Nov., 7/2. The didunculus, or tooth-billed pigeon,… if native accounts are to be believed,… has only saved itself from extinction by changing its habits in one of the islands.
