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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An Australian duck (Biziura lobata), the male of which has a leathery chin lobe and emits a musky odor during the breeding season.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A duck, Cairina moschata, of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Anatinæ, commonly but erroneously known as the muscovy and Barbary duck.
  • noun A duck of the genus Biziura, as B. lobata of Australia: so called from the musky odor of the male.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The Musk Duck (Biziura lobata), a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun large crested wild duck of Central America and South America; widely domesticated

Etymologies

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musk +‎ duck

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