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Teal   /til/   Listen
Teal

adjective
1.
Of a bluish shade of green.  Synonyms: blue-green, bluish green, cyan.



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blue-winged teal
green-winged teal


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"Teal" Quotes from Famous Books



... exceeding brilliancy of its plumage. But nowhere could a spot be found where the ship's boat could approach without extreme danger. The water was shallow everywhere, and the breakers were heavy. Fish of many kinds—more especially mullets,—geese, snipe, teal, and other birds of excellent flavour, were caught ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne
... again we lay down on the hard, stony ground supperless. At such times I would be compelled to rise from time to time and tighten up my belt, until I must have resembled one of the ladies of fashion, so far as the waist was concerned. Again we came to marshy ground, filled with royal duck, teal, water-hens, snipe, etc, and forgot the pangs of past hunger. At such places we would fill our horns and drink the putrid water, or take off our shirts and wash them and our bodies. Mud had to serve for soap. Our washing, spread out on the reeds, would soon ...
— Through Five Republics on Horseback • G. Whitfield Ray


Words linked to "Teal" :   bluewing, Anas discors, greenness, genus Anas, Anas querquedula, Anas crecca, greenwing, green, garganey, duck, Anas, green-winged teal, bluish green, chromatic, viridity


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