Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small European duck (Anas querquedula) having a conspicuous white stripe over each eye and down the back of the head in the male.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of teal, the summer teal, Anas querquedula or Querquedula circia, inhabiting the temperate and southern portions of the palearctic region, a summer visitor to Great Britain, and common in India in winter. It is about 16 inches long, and weighs from 14 to 15 ounces. Over the eye is a broad white line running down the neck, and the breast is marked with black or dark crescentic lines. Also called
pied widgeon .
Wiktionary
- n. A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also
cricket teal , andsummer teal .
WordNet 3.0
- n. small Eurasian teal
Etymologies
- Italian dialectal gargenei, variant of garganello, ultimately from Late Latin gargala, tracheal artery. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Holkham national nature reserve will be holding a storytelling session on 5 August to mark Gruffalo Day, inspiring kids to explore its 4,000 hectares in pursuit of the grizzly creature, along with other rare species including natterjack toads, barn owls, marsh harriers, lapwings and the monstrous-sounding garganey, which is in fact a harmless rare species of duck.”
“A French designer born in Paris Mr. Jean Bousquet established the company in 1964 was name derived from the word 'garganey'.”
“In the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands the most common waterbirds are white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata), garganey (Anas querquedula), northern pintail (Anas acuta), and ruff (Philomachus pugnax).”
“At the beginning of the month the garganey teal are almost the only migratory ducks to be seen on them.”
“Towards the end of the month the garganey or blue-winged teal (_Querquedula circia_), which are the earliest of the migratory ducks to visit India, appear on the tanks.”
“Of the migratory species only a few shovellers and garganey teal tarry till May.”
“More than 31 threatened mammals, including the sloth bear, leopard and water buffalo and birds, including painted stork, open billed stork, garganey, pin tail and whistling teal have been identified in the park, warden Weerasinghe Dissanayake was quoted as saying.”
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“The Hindu that the great white pelican, the garganey, the little stint and the temnick stint were the new visitors.”
“Yet another water dweller is the garganey, a kind of duck.”
“Approximately 500,000 garganey (Anas querquedula) and up to 200,000 pintail (Anas acuta) winter here, along with large numbers of ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca), white-winged tern (Chlidonias leucopterus), ruff (Philomachus pugnax), black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) and other waterbirds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘garganey’.
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Duck!
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, then you should probably list it here.
duck, Duck, turducken, duckling, duck tape, Mallard, rubber duckie, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, lame duck, ducky, ducks and 95 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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1800 Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick and Hi...
Bizarre stuff found there. Note that archaic terms are occasionally not spelled the way we spell them today; in these cases I've tried to link to the modernized spelling (where known) on the word p...
musk-bull, urus, zebu, cameleopard, ratel, suricate, wombach, saragoy, murine, ternate, coach dog, comforter and 91 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 723 more...
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.avian
cassowary, chanticleer, rook, peregrine, lark, kestrel, linnet, thrush, wren, crane, fantail, brant and 36 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for garganey.
chained_bear Illustration here. Aug 26, 2008