| 单词 | wild duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswild 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.1wild duck wild duck n. a duck belonging to any of numerous undomesticated species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > wild mallard1314 wild duck1538 pond duck1678 flapper1747 paddler1882 wigeon1885 1538 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 378 He kyllyd ij. wyld duckes with a crosbow. 1681 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Stomachs & Guts viii. 33 in Musæum Regalis Societatis The Wild-Duck and Teal also, I suppose all of this kind, and most other Birds, are without a Crop. 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. M6 Draw and truss your wild Ducks, parboil them, and half roast them. 1881 O. Wilde Poems 115 The water-rat..Made for the wild-duck's nest. a1916 ‘Saki’ Toys of Peace (1919) 82 By the time they had arrived at the wild duck course it was beginning to be a rather expensive lunch. < as lemmas |
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