| 单词 | paradise duck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparadise duck paradise duck n. New Zealand the paradise shelduck, Tadorna variegata. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake) sheldrakec1325 bergander1544 skeeling-goose1578 scaledrake1600 burranet1602 sheld-fowl?1606 burrow-duck1678 vulpanser1706 shelduck1707 mountain duck1711 sly-goose1776 Brahminy duck1813 paradise duck1813 red goose1848 stock annet1852 1813 R. Williams Rep. Sept. in R. McNab Murihiku (1909) 196 We found the large bay..covered with paradise ducks which induced me naming it Duck Bay. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 4/2 He is pretty sure of a good bag of pigeons, with as many paradise ducks as he cares to carry. 1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) xvi. 290 A pair of paradise ducks had lifted from the wide gravel river-bed beside the road. < as lemmas |
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