Definitions

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  • noun swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks

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Examples

  • Betsan reveals when and how our first First Minister plans to stand down: in England, in front of some performing anatidae.

    And the next First Minister is... 2009

  • Betsan reveals when and how our first First Minister plans to stand down: in England, in front of some performing anatidae.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands"

    McGarr Solicitors - Dublin Solicitors Ireland 2008

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