Crane's-bill


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Crane's´-bill`


n.1.(Bot.) The geranium; - so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane.
2.(Surg.) A pair of long-beaked forceps.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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