English word senses marked with lifeform category "Dabbling ducks"
Parent categories: Ducks, Anatids, Poultry, Freshwater birds, Birds, Livestock, Vertebrates, Agriculture, Animals, Chordates, Applied sciences, Lifeforms, Sciences, Life, Nature
Total 72 word senses
- American black duck (Noun) Anas rubripes, a large dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.
- American wigeon (Noun) A species of duck, Anas americana.
- Baikal teal (Noun) Anas formosa, a dabbling duck that breeds within the forest zone of eastern Siberia
- Cape teal (Noun) Anas capensis, a dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa
- Eurasian teal (Noun) Anas crecca, a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Palearctic and migrates south in winter.
- Eurasian wigeon (Noun) Mareca penelope, a species of dabbling duck.
- Gressingham duck (Noun) A kind of duck bred from a cross of mallards and Pekin ducks.
- Hawaiian duck (Noun) Anas wyvilliana, a bird endemic to Hawaii.
- Hottentot teal (Noun) Anas hottentota, a species of dabbling duck.
- Laysan duck (Noun) Anas laysanensis, an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
- Mexican duck (Noun) Anas diazi, a dabbling duck in the genus Anas which breeds in Mexico and the southern USA.
- New Zealand scaup (Noun) A duck of the Anatinae subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Aythya novaeseelandiae.
- New Zealand teal (Noun) the brown teal
- Pekin duck (Noun) Either of two breeds of domestic duck used primarily for egg and meat production.
- baldpate (Noun) A bald head.
- bluewing (Noun) Torenia (wishbone flower)
- broadbill (Noun) Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).
- brown teal (Noun) A member of the dabbling duck subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Anas chlorotis.
- chestnut teal (Noun) Anas castanea, a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.
- common pochard (Noun) A diving duck of temperate and cool Eurasia (Aythya ferina)
- common teal (Noun) Synonym of Eurasian teal
- cracker (Noun) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- dabbling duck (Noun) One of the ducks of species in subfamily Anatinae, that feed by dabbling in shallow water, including mallards and teals.
- domestic duck (Noun) The domesticated subspecies or form of mallard, sometimes Anas platyrhynchos domesticus or Anas platyrhynchos f. domestica.
- ferruginous duck (Noun) Aythya nyroca, a medium-sized diving duck from Eurasia
- gadwall (Noun) A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera).
- garganey (Noun) A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.
- greenhead (Noun) A fish, the striped bass.
- greenwing (Noun) A common and widespread duck in North America, Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis
- grey teal (Noun) A species of dabbling duck, Anas gracilis, found in open wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Indonesia.
- koloa (Noun) The Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.
- mallard (Noun) Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.
- manky mallard (Noun) A mallard bred from wild mallards and domestic ducks, with variable and uneven plumage patterns.
- moa-nalo (Noun) Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.
- mottled duck (Noun) A medium-sized dabbling duck, Anas fulvigula.
- mottled mallard (Noun) mottled duck
- mud duck (Noun) The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata).
- northern pintail (Noun) A large duck of the species Anas acuta, of wide geographic distribution.
- northern shoveler (Noun) Spatula clypeata, formerly Anas clypeata, a duck breeding in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America.
- piketail (Noun) A kind of duck, the pintail.
- pintail (Noun) A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
- pintail (Noun) A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.; A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.
- pintail (Noun) A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
- pintail (Noun) The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
- pintail duck (Noun) Any of a group of dabbling ducks, all in genus Anas, having a characteristic pointed tail.
- poacher (Noun) An American wigeon (Anas americana).
- ring-necked duck (Noun) Aythya collaris, a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes
- roan duck (Noun) A Rouen duck, a breed of domestic duck.
- sea pheasant (Noun) The pintail duck.
- sharptail (Noun) The pintail duck.
- shovelard (Noun) A kind of dabbling duck; the shoveler.
- shovelbill (Noun) A bird with a spatulate bill; the shoveler.
- shoveler (Noun) Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.
- speckled-belly (Noun) The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
- spiketail (Noun) A pintail duck (Anas spp.).
- spindletail (Noun) The pintail duck.
- split-tail (Noun) The pintail duck.
- sprigtail (Noun) The pintail duck.
- sprigtail (Noun) The sharp-tailed grouse.
- squawk duck (Noun) Synonym of Baikal teal
- teal (Noun) A teal independent.
- whew duck (Noun) A Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope).
- whewer (Noun) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope).
- whim (Noun) A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
- whim (Noun) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
- whim (Verb) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.
- whim (Noun) A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.
- whinyard (Noun) A sword, or hanger.
- whinyard (Noun) The shoveler, a type of duck.
- whinyard (Noun) The pochard, a type of duck.
- wigeon (Noun) Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks.
- zuisin (Noun) The American wigeon.
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