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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of sea-ducks, subfamily Fuligulinœ, family Anatidœ: named from the excellence of the flesh. The type and only species is the canvasback, A. vallisneria. S. F. Baird, 1858. See cut under canvasback.

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