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muscovy duck
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun muscovy duck has 1 sense
- muscovy duck(n = noun.animal) cairina moschata, musk duck - large crested wild duck of Central America and South America; widely domesticated; Array is a kind of duck
is a member of cairina, genus cairina
CIDE DICTIONARY
muscovy duck, [A corruption of musk duck.].
A duck (Cairina moschata ), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck . It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil. [1913 Webster]
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