mallard
/ˈmalɑːd
/ /ˈmaləd/noun (plural same or mallards)
The commonest duck of the northern hemisphere, the male having a dark green head and white collar.
- Anas platyrhynchos, family Anatidae.
- This paper examines the function of female resistance behavior in one of the dabbling ducks, the mallard.
- The teals, mallards and other small ducks were all paddling about.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, 'wild drake', from masle 'male'.
Rhymes
- redwater
- redwater fever
- redwater tree
- redweed
- red-wet
- red wheat
- red whelk
- red whortleberry
- red wiggler
- red willow
- red wind
- red wine
- red wine vinegar
- redwing
- redwing blackbird
- red-winged
- red-winged parrot
- red-winged starling
- red withe
- red withy
- red wolf
- redwood
- Redwood City
- Redwood second
- Redwood's viscometer