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Meanings of Anatidae in English
Swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks.
Synonyms
Examples for "duck"
Examples for "duck"
1
Boissière is on home territory: the south-west of France is duck country.
2
So I am happy that someone has the good sense to duck.
3
Kashyap was able to duck under his food cart just in time.
4
Enda made light work of his duck paté with port wine sauce.
5
One of the surgeons in white duck touched her on the arm.
1
Wild fowl too, such as ducks and geese, swarmed in the river.
2
There were poultry-yards and pig-pens and marshy quarters for ducks and geese.
3
There were chickens and ducks and geese, and a pen of pigs.
4
About fifty hens, four cockerels, and a number of ducks and geese.
5
That will be a stormy conclave!-Bequiet, my dear ducks and geese!
1
Old Father Drake, the head of the duck family, started for the water.
2
He is so swift of wing that even the members of the Duck family fear him, for he is especially fond of fat Duck.
3
Perhaps Old Father Drake, the head of all the Duck family, wouldn't let Step-father Wyandotte punish him that night if he did try the water.