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单词 pond duck
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pond duck
pond duck n. (a) the mallard, Anas platyrhynchos; (b) U.S. the hooded merganser, Mergus cucullatus.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > wild
mallard1314
wild duck1538
pond duck1678
flapper1747
paddler1882
wigeon1885
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 371 Pond-Ducks.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 129 Pond-ducks..have a straight and narrow bill, a small hind toe, and a sharp pointed train.
1926 A. S. McQueen & H. Mizell Hist. Okefenokee Swamp (1949) 136 The pond duck is also a small duck... He gets his name from the fact that he feeds almost exclusively in the ponds in the pine woods adjacent to the Swamp.
1993 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 15 Oct. 17 I described the two creatures therein as ‘vaguely duck-like’, knowing that, whatever they were, the common or pond duck was probably a species wide of the mark.
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