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Wigeon

noun
1.
Freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals.  Synonyms: Anas penelope, widgeon.





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"Wigeon" Quotes from Famous Books



... rate, we associate the V-shaped companies of wigeon and gaggles of geese with an ice-bound landscape, though in exceptional years, even where they no longer stay to breed, these night-flying northerners linger to the coming of spring, and Hawker noticed the curious apparition of grey geese and swallows ...
— Birds in the Calendar • Frederick G. Aflalo


Words linked to "Wigeon" :   Anas americana, genus Anas, American widgeon, Anas, duck, baldpate


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