单词 | canvas-backed duck |
释义 | > as lemmascanvas-backed duck 2. A North American duck ( Fuligula valisneriana), so called from the colour of the back feathers. Called also more fully canvas-back duck, and canvas-backed duck. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya valisneriana (canvas-back) canvas-back1785 white-back1790 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 130 Besides these [birds] we have..The Widgeon, Sheldrach, or Canvas back, Black head. 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 562 Four large ducks..The far-fam'd canvass-backs. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 846/2 The canvass-back stands alone. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 846/2 The man who has feasted on canvass-back ducks, cannot philosophically be said to have lived in vain. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. iii. 393 The gastronomical merits of..canvas-back ducks. 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. i. 20 He had never tasted a canvas-back duck. < as lemmas |
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