| 单词 | runner duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunner duck g. In full runner duck. A breed of duck with a slender body, upright posture, running gait, and typically white or fawn-coloured plumage; a duck of this breed.Cf. Indian runner n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1a(b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of Roan duck1763 wood-duck1777 Rouen1785 lady1792 stranger1792 Rouen duck1795 tree-duck1824 Labrador duck1834 hareld1841 whio1847 pink-eyed duck1848 penguin duck1850 topknot duck1850 Aylesbury1854 roan1854 pink-eye1861 Peking duck1874 runner1878 bluebill1884 Steller's (eider) (duck)1884 Peking1885 half-bird1893 torrent-duck1899 1878 Live Stock Jrnl. Almanack 103/2 Several letters have lately appeared concerning what are generally known as Indian runner ducks. 1886 Trans. Edinb. Naturalists' Field Club 1 86 List of Water-Fowl on The Haining Loch... Brent Geese. American Runner Ducks. Pekin Ducks. Cayuga Ducks. [Etc.] 1900 Reliable Poultry Jrnl. Apr. 207/2 The Runners are particularly adapted to the market poultry man's needs. 1937 F. B. Young Portrait of Village v. 102 By the time he had finished stocking it with..runner ducks and Rhode Island Red poultry,..he had made another big hole in his dwindling capital. 1986 T. Bartlett Ducks & Geese iii. 24 Runner ducks need less water than most varieties. 2002 Countryman Apr. 47/1 We watch Hiawatha the runner duck—true to his name—scouting around the farmyard pond like an Indian. < as lemmas |
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