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单词 querquedule
释义

querquedulen.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin querquedula.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin querquedula teal (1538 or earlier; subsequently used as a scientific Latin specific name in Anas querquedula ( Linnaeus Systema naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) 126) and as a genus name (now disused: J. F. Stephens 1824, in G. Shaw Gen. Zool. XII. ii. 142)) < classical Latin querquēdula a kind of duck, probably a teal, of imitative origin; compare -ula -ula suffix. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (kwə̄·ɹkwĭdiūl) /ˈkwɜːkwɪdjuːl/.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A duck of the former genus Querquedula, which comprised the teals and garganey (now included in the genus Anas). Also: the pintail, A. acuta.
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1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Querquedule, a genus of duck, one species of which..is the common teal.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Querquedule, the pin-tail duck.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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