mallard

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So far as I am aware the mallard is the only wild duck that has been bred in sufficient numbers to slaughter for the markets.

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  1. noun A wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) of which the male has a green head and neck. Most domestic ducks descend from the mallard.

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  • I like better than most things a day with my own dogs in scattered covers, when I know not what may rise—a woodcock, an odd pheasant, a snipe in the out-lying willow-bed, and perhaps a mallard or a teal. —  The Life of Froude
  • With the aid of his old British musket and of his Newfoundland dog “Gunner” he secured many a canvasback and mallard, to say nothing of quails, turkeys and other game. —  George Washington: Farmer
  • A mallard is a plain silly fat Amsterdam duck sitting on the canal. —  Tumbleweed - Grijpstra ; de Gier 02 - Janwillem van de Wetering
  • Every day I see a hundred mallard, two hundred mallard, three hundred His voice was rising. —  Tumbleweed - Grijpstra ; de Gier 02 - Janwillem van de Wetering
  • Female: The female mallard is a mottled brownish color and has a violet speculum bordered by black and white.
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  1. Middle English malarde, from Old French mallart : perhaps from male, male; see male + -ard, -ard, and or possibly of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English malarde, maulard, mawlerd, also irreg. mawdelare, mawarde, from Old French malard, malart, a wild duck, prob., with suffix -ard, from male, male: see male. The French dial. form maillard apparently simulates F. maille, a spot: see mail.
 

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