英语词汇“whistling duck”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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whistling 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.¹

whistling duck

whistling duck n. various species of duck, as the golden-eye and the widgeon (cf. whistler n. 2a).

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas penelope (Eurasian widgeon)

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Bucephala > bucephala clangula (golden-eye)

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1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 69 Whistling Ducks are somewhat less than our Common Duck... In flying, their Wings make a pretty sort of loud whistling Noise.

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. vii. 273 Flocks of whistling ducks (Anas autumnalis), parrots, and..macaws..flew over.

extracted from whistlingadj.

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单词	whistling duck
释义	> as lemmas whistling 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.¹ whistling duck whistling duck n. various species of duck, as the golden-eye and the widgeon (cf. whistler n. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas penelope (Eurasian widgeon) wigeon1508 winder1542 atteal1600 smeath1622 smee1668 whistling duck1699 whima1705 white-face1709 poacher1888 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Bucephala > bucephala clangula (golden-eye) cur1621 goldeneye1622 shelden1674 whistling duck1699 four-eyes1755 garrot1829 jingler1829 great-head1843 musselcracker1845 whistle-wing1872 ironhead1888 whiffler1888 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. ii. 69 Whistling Ducks are somewhat less than our Common Duck... In flying, their Wings make a pretty sort of loud whistling Noise. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. vii. 273 Flocks of whistling ducks (Anas autumnalis), parrots, and..macaws..flew over. extracted from whistlingadj. < as lemmas
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