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Black duck   /blæk dək/   Listen
Black duck

noun
1.
A dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada.  Synonym: Anas rubripes.





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... over Maddeket way and sit on the shore of Long Pond. There I found the bushy swales alive with marsh birds. Blackbirds gurgled all about. The reedy shallows held many bitterns whose sepulchral "Cahugancagunk, cahungancagunk" sounded ventriloqually from the reeds. Coot, sea duck, loons, black duck, grebes, dotted the surface of the pond and in all the sandy shallows spawning alewives splashed and played—thousands of them. I had thought spawning a serious business with fish, not to be entered upon lightly or without due ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard
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Words linked to "Black duck" :   Anas rubripes, genus Anas, Anas, duck


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