| 单词 | long-tailed duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong-tailed duck Without distinctive addition or context, the word is applied to the common domestic duck, a domesticated form of the wild duck or mallard n. ( Anas boscas). The other species (about 125 in number, distributed among some 40 genera) are distinguished by adjuncts expressing colour, appearance, or habits, as black duck, brown duck, crested duck, dusky duck, fishing duck, little duck, long-tailed duck, noisy duck, painted duck, pied duck, red-headed duck, ring-necked duck, ruddy duck, sleepy duck, swallow-tailed duck, tufted duck, velvet duck, whistling duck, white-faced duck, etc.; habitat, as channel-duck, creek-duck, mire-duck, moss-duck, mountain-duck, river-duck, rock-duck, sea-duck, shoal-duck, surf duck, tree-duck, wood-duck; native region, as American duck, English duck, French duck, German duck, Labrador duck, Norway duck; or by more distinctive premodifiers as canvas-back duck, St. Cuthbert's duck n., eider-duck, harlequin duck, herald-, maiden-, mandarin duck n., Muscovy duck n. or musk duck n., mussel duck n., penguin duck n., squawk-duck n., etc., see in their alphabetical places. In its widest technical sense, the name includes the gadwalls, garganeys, golden-eyes, pintails, pochards, scaups, scoters, sheldrakes, shovellers, spoonbills, teal, whistlewings, widgeons, and other related groups; the geese and goosanders, though Anatidæ, are not usually called ‘ducks’.extracted from duckn.1long-tailed duck long-tailed duck n. a migratory sea duck, Clangula hyemalis, the male of which has chiefly white and black plumage and a long pointed tail, breeding in northern Eurasia and northern North America. ΚΠ 1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 156 The Long-tailed Duck from Hudson's-Bay. a1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1814) VIII. 93 (heading) Long-tailed duck. Anas glacialis. 1903 J. H. Studer Birds N. Amer. (new ed.) 21/1 The Long-tailed Duck passes on the eastern coast of the United States under the name of South-Southerly. 2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iv. 166 The appearance of cooler indicators such as mammoth, and northerly birds such as the long-tailed duck. < as lemmas |
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