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Meanings of anas clypeata in English

Catalan
ànec cullerot

Freshwater duck of the northern hemisphere having a broad flat bill.

        ànec cullerot
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        Portuguese
        pato-trombeteiro
        Spanish
        cuchara comun
        Catalan
        anas clypeata

        Species of bird.

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                Examples for "shoveller"
                Examples for "shoveller"
                1
                A shoveller was hurt when the gravel slipped a few minutes ago.
                The Daughter of a Magnate
                2
                Ah, that poor shoveller.
                The Daughter of a Magnate
                3
                The merry men included the ice-carrier, the magnetician, the two wardens of the dogs, the snow-shoveller and coal-carrier and the storeman.
                The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
                4
                There proved to be several varieties of duck among the countless flocks which I saw, notably mallard, teal, pochard, and shoveller.
                A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
                5
                The beak of a shoveller-duck (Spatula clypeata) is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale.
                The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
                1
                The shoveler is a native species but is not endemic to New Zealand.
                Radio NZ
                2
                The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.
                The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section S
                3
                The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the second man left.
                Stories from the Old Attic
                4
                The old man got a cow-milker and a shit-shoveler.
                Blockade billy
                5
                For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which he will do his biggest day's work.
                The Principles of Scientific Management
                1
                It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark.
                The old man and the sea
                2
                That would not have mattered if I had not hurt my back in an eleven-hour fight with a giant broadbill swordfish.
                Tales of lonely trails