| 单词 | butter-duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-duck butter-duck n. U.S. a duck that acquires a layer of fat in the autumn; esp. the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.Cf. butter-back n., butterball n. 2a, butterbox n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Melanitta > melanitta perspicillata (surf-scoter) surf duck1814 surf scoter1833 butter-duck1853 surf coot1885 1853 F. A. Pulszky & T. W. Pulszky White, Red, Black II. iv. 115 Dark butterducks, disturbed by the paddling of the steamer, flutter up in advance of the boat. 1857 J. G. Swan Northwest Coast 357 The Colonel saw a ‘butter-duck’ in a shallow creek... These ducks are the black surf-duck (Fuligula perspicillata). 1989 Peterson's Hunting Ann. 1990 63/2 Ringneck ducks, lesser scaup, redheads, and buffleheads (or butter ducks as some old-timers call them), probably frequent small ponds more than any other species of diving ducks. 2006 N. Vida Texicans (Electronic ed.) He watched the prairie dogs flick out of their burrows and the cranes and quail and butter-ducks flutter across the tree-shrouded stream. < as lemmas |
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