单词 | treeduck |
释义 | > as lemmastree-duck Without distinctive addition or context, the word is applied to the common domestic duck, a domesticated form of the wild duck or mallard n. ( Anas boscas). The other species (about 125 in number, distributed among some 40 genera) are distinguished by adjuncts expressing colour, appearance, or habits, as black duck, brown duck, crested duck, dusky duck, fishing duck, little duck, long-tailed duck, noisy duck, painted duck, pied duck, red-headed duck, ring-necked duck, ruddy duck, sleepy duck, swallow-tailed duck, tufted duck, velvet duck, whistling duck, white-faced duck, etc.; habitat, as channel-duck, creek-duck, mire-duck, moss-duck, mountain-duck, river-duck, rock-duck, sea-duck, shoal-duck, surf duck, tree-duck, wood-duck; native region, as American duck, English duck, French duck, German duck, Labrador duck, Norway duck; or by more distinctive premodifiers as canvas-back duck, St. Cuthbert's duck n., eider-duck, harlequin duck, herald-, maiden-, mandarin duck n., Muscovy duck n. or musk duck n., mussel duck n., penguin duck n., squawk-duck n., etc., see in their alphabetical places. In its widest technical sense, the name includes the gadwalls, garganeys, golden-eyes, pintails, pochards, scaups, scoters, sheldrakes, shovellers, spoonbills, teal, whistlewings, widgeons, and other related groups; the geese and goosanders, though Anatidæ, are not usually called ‘ducks’.extracted from duckn.1tree-duck tree-duck n. a duck of the genus Dendrocygna or an allied genus. 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 1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. ii. 98 Tree Duck..inhabits the West India islands and the adjacent continent... It is said to make a whistling..noise, and to build its nest in trees. < as lemmas |
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