Wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed.
A duck (Anas platyrhynchos) which breeds throughout the temperate and sub-tropical areas of America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
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Examples for "wild duck "
Examples for "wild duck "
1 They had gone down the river and the wild duck with them.
2 Who more delighted in striking down the partridge or the wild duck ?
3 Not quite so large as the wild duck , but extremely good eating.
4 Of substantials there was abundance-turkeysand fowls, wild duck and other game.
5 Willet loved wild duck and so he gave him an extra portion.
1 A flight of mallard wheels overhead and glides down towards the water.
2 But we don't have to look a gift mallard in the eye.
3 They look a little larger than mallard ducks, and are well feathered.
4 Soon a large flight came over, mixed up with mallard and widgeon.
5 They sat side by side on the grass, watching the mallard ducks.
6 You have seen the mallard and the rest of the Duck-people.
7 The mallard is our most common duck, found in all flyways.
8 Then he turned appealingly to me, uttering the soft note of the mallard .
9 Its bill is similar in colour and shape to a mallard 's .
10 Plenty of mallard , wigeon, teal of course, and the old standby pigeon breasts.
11 Shotguns roared again, but the mallard seemed to anticipate their aim.
12 The mallard has to be his own sentinel, as a rule.
13 That visitor was a mallard duck, and it's since become a minor celebrity.
14 His wife is the one in front flirting with the mallard .
15 Eight mandarin ducks were loafing around there, along with some mallard .
16 Our bag to-day was one tiger, one florican, one mallard , and two widgeon.
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