Definition of sheldrake Sheldrake
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NounPlural: sheldrakes |
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| sheldrake - Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill | ||
| duck small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | ||
| genus tadorna, tadorna sheldrakes | ||
| sheldrake - large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | ||
| merganser, fish duck, sawbill | ||
| sea duck any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser | ||
| genus mergus, mergus mergansers | ||
| goosander, mergus merganser common merganser of Europe and North America | ||
| american merganser, mergus merganser americanus common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander | ||
| mergus serrator, red-breasted merganser widely distributed merganser of America and Europe | ||
| mergus albellus, smew smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sheldrake (n.)
Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. - sheldrake (n.)
Any one of the American mergansers.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sheldrake
shel′drāk, n. a genus of birds of the Duck family Anatidæ, having the hind-toe free:—fem. Shel′duck. [A.S. scyld, a shield, and drake.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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sheldrake
The Anas tadorna, a large species of wild duck.
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🔤- sheldrake, noun, singular of sheldrakes.
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