Dentirostral

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dentirostral \Den`ti*ros"tral\, a. (Zool.)
     Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine
     birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on
     insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under
     {Beak}.
     [1913 Webster]