Japanese word senses marked with lifeform category "Ducks"
Parent categories: Anatids, Poultry, Freshwater birds, Birds, Livestock, Vertebrates, Agriculture, Animals, Chordates, Applied sciences, Lifeforms, Sciences, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Dabbling ducks
Total 21 word senses
- 家鴨 (Noun) an academic grade of “B” (from the way the 乙 (otsu) character, used to indicate this grade, looks vaguely like a duck)
- 小毛綿鴨 (Noun) a Steller's eider
- 小鴨 (Noun) teal (freshwater duck of the subfamily Anatinae)
- 尾長鴨 (Noun) a northern pintail
- 毛綿鴨 (Noun) a king eider
- 真鴨 (Noun) a mallard
- 野バリケン (Noun) a Muscovy duck
- 野鴨 (Noun) wild duck
- 鳧 (Character) grey-headed lapwing
- 鳧 (Noun) a grey-headed lapwing
- 鳧 (Noun) Alternative spelling of 鴨 (kamo, “duck”)
- 鴛鴦 (Noun) a topknot or bun hairstyle wherein the hair is bunched on each side in a shape vaguely resembling two mandarin ducks
- 鴨 (Noun) a duck
- 鴨 (Noun) (from the way ducks return to the same place and are thus easy to hunt) a mark or easy target for a swindle, someone who is likely to lose at gambling or other competition
- 鴨 (Noun) (from the good flavor of duck meat) short for 鴨の味 (kamo no aji, “duck flavor”): a very good flavor; by extension, any remarkably good sensation or feeling, particularly describing happy married life
- 鴨 (Noun) (from the uniform of black clothing) short for 黒鴨 (kurogamo, “black duck”): a male servant, such as a butler or chauffeur (compare English penguin)
- 鴨 (Noun) alternative spelling of 家鴨: a domestic duck, Anas platyrhynchos var. domesticus, descended from the mallard
- 黒鳥 (Noun) a black swan, specifically Cygnus atratus
- 黒鴨 (Noun) common scoter (Melanitta nigra)
- アメリカオシ (Noun) a wood duck
- バリケン (Noun) Synonym of 野バリケン (no-bariken, “Muscovy duck”)
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