Usually means: Keratin covering of bird beaks.
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  8. rhamphotheca: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Rhamphotheca: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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▸ noun:  A thin horny sheath of keratin on the outer surface of a bird's beak

Similar:
rhinotheca, gnathotheca, ramicorn, nail, beak, brail, hyporachis, shell, apterium, hypopteron, more...

Opposite:
keratin, beak, bill, mandible

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Similar:
rhinotheca, gnathotheca, ramicorn, nail, beak, brail, hyporachis, shell, apterium, hypopteron, more...

Opposite:
keratin, beak, bill, mandible



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