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Wood duck   /wʊd dək/   Listen
Wood duck

noun
1.
Showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees.  Synonyms: Aix sponsa, summer duck, wood widgeon.





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"Wood duck" Quotes from Famous Books



... France, or Mallard, and the Brancheuse, or Wood Duck, are of different habits from the foregoing, flying in pairs. Indeed, the constancy of the latter is said to be so great that if he loses his mate he never takes another partner, but goes mourning to the end ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie


Words linked to "Wood duck" :   genus Aix, wood widgeon, Aix sponsa, wood drake, summer duck, duck, Aix


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