Usage of "Bucephela albeola"

Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage.

Sinònims

Examples for "dipper"

She fished them out and rinsed them with a dipper of water. 
 The stand 

They's a tub over there in the corner with a dipper handy. 
 The Night Horseman 

I quite enjoyed it: it was like being on a big dipper. 
 The Guardian 

Tilly returned with the dipper and timidly approached the Tick-Tock Man's throne. 
 The waste lands 

From the fairground came the ritual screams from the falling big dipper. 
 The coldest blood 

It was black-and-white-spotted and fat as a butterball, she and the little Bococks bragged. 
 Blue Ridge Country 

She was a butterball of a girl-lessso now. 
 The Last Ship 

My mother said I'd been such a butterball of a baby, she had to diaper me with pillowcases. 
 God don't like ugly 

Above the bed hung the same silk sky and butterball angels her parents had given her for the wedding. 
 Island beneath the sea 

I was a regular butterball. 
 IT 

At Seneca Lock author saw a duck-a tiny bufflehead, drifting along in the current just offshore. 
 The new yorker 

He tells me that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the veriest knave and bufflehead that over he saw. 
 The Diary of Samuel Pepys 

Listen to the great bufflehead! 
 Secret Bread 

You tip this ol' bufflehead into watter,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give 'ee a poond note.' 
 Love Among the Chickens 

Ivory-billed woodpecker, butterball, bufflehead. 
 Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation 

Significats de Bucephela albeola en anglès