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SEA DUCK

Pronunciation (US):

• SEA DUCK (noun)
The noun SEA DUCK has 1 sense:

1. any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser

Familiarity information: SEA DUCK used as a noun is very rare.

• SEA DUCK (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea duck" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea duck"):

eider; eider duck (duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females)

scooter; scoter (large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere)

Clangula hyemalis; old squaw; oldwife (a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States)

fish duck; merganser; sawbill; sheldrake (large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges)

"To kill two birds with one stone."
(English proverb)
"Good remains are nice to have."
(Breton proverb)
"Dog won't eat dog's meat."
(Armenian proverb)
"Life is just as long as the time it takes for someone to pass by a window."
(Corsican proverb)

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