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单词 burrow-duck
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burrow-duckn.

Etymology: < burrow n.1 (or ? possibly burrow n.2, in sense ‘sand-hill’; compare burranet n.) + duck n.1 The bird makes its nest in rabbit-burrows or in sand-hills on the seashore.
The Sheldrake or Bergander, Anas tadorna.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake)
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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 363 They are called by some, Burrow-Ducks, because they build in Coney-burroughs.
1710 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. 1708–09 (Royal Soc.) 26 466 The Sheldrake, or Burrough-Duck.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 371/1 Sheldrake..called in different parts of Britain Bargander, St. George's Duck, Burrow Duck, and Burrough Duck, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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