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ˈmusk-duck
1. A tropical American duck, Cairina moschata, erroneously called the Muscovy and Barbary duck.
It is now domesticated and is larger than the common duck.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 130 The Muscovy duck, or, more properly speaking, the Musk Duck, so called from a supposed musky smell,..a native of Africa. 1824Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. ii. 81 They have obtained the name of Musk-duck from their musky smell. 1877Newton in Encycl. Brit. VII. 506/2 The Musk-duck (Cairina) of South America, which is often domesticated and in that condition will produce fertile hybrids with the common Duck.
2. An Australian duck, Biziura lobata, so called from the musky odour of the male.
1834Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. 19 A specimen was exhibited of the Musk Duck of New Holland, Hydrobates lobatus Temm. 1880L. A. Meredith Tasmanian Friends & Foes 159 That's a musk duck... The whole bird has a strange odour of musk, rendering it quite uneatable. |