mallard
/ˈmalɑːd
/ /ˈmaləd/noun (plural same or mallards)
The commonest duck of the northern hemisphere, the male having a dark green head and white collar.
- Anas platyrhynchos, family Anatidae.
- This paper examines the function of female resistance behavior in one of the dabbling ducks, the mallard.
- The teals, mallards and other small ducks were all paddling about.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, 'wild drake', from masle 'male'.
Rhymes
- thymol
- push-push
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- pushtin
- push-to-talk
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- Puskas, Ferenc