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Meanings of Bucephela albeola in English

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

        Synonyms
        Examples for "dipper"
        Examples for "dipper"
        1
        She fished them out and rinsed them with a dipper of water.
        The stand
        2
        They's a tub over there in the corner with a dipper handy.
        The Night Horseman
        3
        I quite enjoyed it: it was like being on a big dipper.
        The Guardian
        4
        Tilly returned with the dipper and timidly approached the Tick-Tock Man's throne.
        The waste lands
        5
        From the fairground came the ritual screams from the falling big dipper.
        The coldest blood
        1
        It was black-and-white-spotted and fat as a butterball, she and the little Bococks bragged.
        Blue Ridge Country
        2
        She was a butterball of a girl-lessso now.
        The Last Ship
        3
        My mother said I'd been such a butterball of a baby, she had to diaper me with pillowcases.
        God don't like ugly
        4
        Above the bed hung the same silk sky and butterball angels her parents had given her for the wedding.
        Island beneath the sea
        5
        I was a regular butterball.
        IT
        1
        At Seneca Lock author saw a duck-a tiny bufflehead, drifting along in the current just offshore.
        The new yorker
        2
        He tells me that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the veriest knave and bufflehead that over he saw.
        The Diary of Samuel Pepys
        3
        Listen to the great bufflehead!
        Secret Bread
        4
        You tip this ol' bufflehead into watter,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give 'ee a poond note.'
        Love Among the Chickens
        5
        Ivory-billed woodpecker, butterball, bufflehead.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation