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Sheldrake
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Sheldrake has 2 senses
- sheldrake(n = noun.animal) fish duck, merganser, sawbill - large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges; Array is a kind of sea duck
- sheldrake(n = noun.animal) Array - Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill; Array is a kind of duck
is a member of genus mergus, mergus
has particulars: goosander, mergus merganser, american merganser, mergus merganser americanus, mergus serrator, red-breasted merganser, mergus albellus, smew, hooded merganser, hooded sheldrake, lophodytes cucullatus
is a member of genus tadorna, tadorna
has particulars: shelduck
CIDE DICTIONARY
Sheldrake, n. [Sheld + drake.].
- Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus
Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (Tadorna cornuta syn.Tadorna tadorna ), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. [1913 Webster]" It has the head and neck greenish black, the breast, sides, and forward part of the back brown, the shoulders and middle of belly black, the speculum green, and the bill and frontal bright red. Called alsoshelduck ,shellduck ,sheldfowl ,skeelduck ,bergander ,burrow duck , andlinks goose ." [1913 Webster]" The Australian sheldrake (Tadorna radja ) has the head, neck, breast, flanks, and wing coverts white, the upper part of the back and a band on the breast deep chestnut, and the back and tail black. The chestnut sheldrake of Australia (Casarca tadornoides ) is varied with black and chestnut, and has a dark green head and neck. The ruddy sheldrake, or Braminy duck (C. rutila ), and the white-winged sheldrake (C. leucoptera ), are related Asiatic species." [1913 Webster] - Any one of the American mergansers. [1913 Webster]" The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler." [1913 Webster]
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