| 单词 | house duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse duck house duck n. (originally) a domesticated duck (now rare); (in later use) spec. a pet duck. ΚΠ 1573 R. Lever Arte of Reason iv. iii. 150 For though I graunt yt som houseduck flieth not, yet am not I thereby forced to say, ye wildduck flieth not, seing ye restraint may seem to be made but to the tame duck. 1657 J. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Hist. Wonderful Things of Nature vi. vi. 171 House Ducks are known almost to all men; those of Lybia are of a middle stature, between a Goose and a Duck. 1710 R. Sibbald Hist. Fife & Kinross ii. ii. 48 Anas Arctica Clusii, haunts much this Firth.., it is less than the House-Duck. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xii. 257 The manner is something like that by which the common house-duck escapes, when pursued by a dog. 1928 Japanese Jrnl. Zool. 1 (Abstracts) 128 The mature eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides of man are able to hatch and the larvae migrate in the body of the house duck as in the body of mammals. 2009 K. Stevens Where Blind Horse Sings 76 When we allowed two former house ducks to become part of the Underfoot family, we didn't know what the outcome would be. < as lemmas |
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