单词 | red-headed duck |
释义 | > as lemmasred-headed duck red-headed duck n. †(a) any of several European ducks with red or brown heads, esp. a pochard ( Aythya ferina) or a female or immature goldeneye ( Bucephala clangula); also with distinguishing word (obsolete); (b) U.S. the redhead, Aythya americana. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Netta red-headed duck1678 rosy-billed duck1867 rosy-bill1888 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 364 The great red-headed Duck. 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 561 I believe [the pochard] is the red headed duck of Lawson. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Goldeneye Willughby and Ray seem to have given the young, or female, of this species under the title of Smaller red-headed Duck. 1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 198 The Red-headed Duck reaches the Middle and Southern States by passing overland or following our great streams. 1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 252 Of divers, there may frequently be met with..the red-headed duck (F[uligula] ferina, L.). 1947 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 30 Apr. 3/1 A pair of red-headed ducks rode at anchor well out from the shore. 1987 Avian Dis. 31 213/1 Hepatic carcinomas have been reported in..a female Red-Headed Duck (Aythya americana, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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