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Golden-eye   Listen
noun
Golden-eye  n.  (Zool.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (Glaucionetta Islandica) is less common.






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"Golden-eye" Quotes from Famous Books



... Golden-eye, n. the bird Certhia lunulatu, Shaw; now called Melithreptus lunulatus, Shaw, and classed ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris



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