MALLARD • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Mallard

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Mallard n.

(Zool.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

(Zool.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.

See images of 'Mallard'

Etymology of 'Mallard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Mallard" Quotes from Famous Books

... hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. I will give only one other case; Mr. Hewitt states that a wild duck, reared in captivity, "after breeding a couple of seasons with her own mallard, at once shook him off on my placing a male Pintail on the water. It was evidently a case of love at first sight, for she swam about the new-comer caressingly, though he appeared evidently alarmed and averse to her overtures of affection. ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... heard Captain Smith say more than once, that he had seen flocks of ducks a full mile wide and five or six miles long, wherein canvasbacks, mallard, widgeon, redheads, dottrel, sheldrake, and teal swam wing to wing, actually crowding each other. When such flocks rose in the air, the noise made by their wings was like unto the roaring of a ...

— Richard of Jamestown - A Story of the Virginia Colony • James Otis

Words linked to "Mallard" : duck, Anas platyrhynchos, Anas