| 单词 | shoveller duck | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoveller duck  2.  ‘From the latter half of the 17th century’ (Newton  Dict. Birds 841) applied to the Spoonbill Duck, Spatula (or Rhynchaspis) clypeata, a bird with a broad shovel-like beak. Also  shoveller duck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > 			[noun]		 > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas clypeata (shoveller) shoveller1674 swaddle-bill1709 1674    J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 96  				The Shoveler: Anas platyrynchos, sive clypeata. 1699    B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew  				Shuffler, a Bird like, but not so big as a Duck, having a broader Bill. 1733    Philos. Trans. 1731–2 		(Royal Soc.)	 37 449  				The Blue-wing'd Shoveler. 1766    T. Pennant Brit. Zool.  ii. 155  				The Shoveler..weighs twenty-two ounces. 1838    J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 241  				Shoveller Duck. Anas clypeata, Linn. 1872    C. Darwin Origin of Species 		(ed. 6)	 vii. 184  				The beak is thus very inferior as a sifter to that of the shoveller. 1878    Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1 446  				Spatula clypeata (Linn.). Shoveller; Spoon-bill Duck. < as lemmas | 
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