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Muscovy duck

noun
1.
Large crested wild duck of Central America and South America; widely domesticated.  Synonyms: Cairina moschata, musk duck.





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... here five different kinds of ducks, some of which I do not recollect to have any where seen before. The largest are as big as a Muscovy duck, with a very beautiful variegated plumage, on which account we called it the Painted Duck; both male and female have a large white spot on each wing; the head and neck of the latter is white, but all the other feathers as well as those on the head and neck of the ...
— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 • James Cook
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