Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ring-necked scaup or duck, Fulix collaris or Fuligula rufitorques; the moonbill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also
ring-billed blackhead . Seescaup .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Aythya collaris, a diving
duck ofNorth America with a whiteband around thebill .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kinda like a Bonaparte's size or maybe ringbill size, with only great black backs for comparison.
Ivory Gull 2009
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Kinda like a Bonaparte's size or maybe ringbill size, with only great black backs for comparison.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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It's making progress when the great black back walks over -- doesn't even fly over and swoop down -- grabs the fish away from the ringbill, flips it so it's lengthwise and swallows it whole.
Low Tide 2007
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It's making progress when the great black back walks over -- doesn't even fly over and swoop down -- grabs the fish away from the ringbill, flips it so it's lengthwise and swallows it whole.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Bunch of gulls out at the airport, blown inland by the storm, mix of herring and ringbill types as far as I could tell at 15 mph.
And the gloom abideth forever jhetley 2005
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