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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several small, short-necked freshwater ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that feed on the surface of the water and often have brightly marked plumage.
  2. n. A moderate or dark bluish green to greenish blue.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small fresh-water duck, of the subfamily Anatinæ and genus Querquedula (or Nettion). There are numerous species, in all parts of the world. The best-known are 2 in Europe and 3 in the United States. The common teal of Europe is Q. crecca, very similar to the green-winged American teal, Q. carolinensis, but lacking a white crescentic mark on the side of the breast in front of the wing which is conspicuous in the other. The summer teal of Europe is Q. circia, the garganey.
  2. n. The blue-winged teal.
  3. n. The act of cajoling or wheedling.
  4. n. A Welsh dry measure, equal to five Winchester bushels (nearly). A long teal in Pembrokeshire is about eight bushels.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
  2. n. colour A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
  3. adj. colour having a bluish-green colour

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a blue-green color or pigment
  2. n. any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
  3. adj. of a bluish shade of green

Etymologies

  1. Probably from an unrecorded Old English word cognate with Middle Dutch teling ("teal") Middle Low German telink, from West Germanic *taili. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English tele. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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