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Kamichi :: Kamichi (n.) A curious South American bird (Anhima, / Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and S

Platypus :: Platypus (n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.

Sea Pheasant :: Sea pheasant () The pintail duck.

Spiketail :: Spiketail (n.) The pintail duck.

Ferae Naturae :: Ferae naturae () Of a wild nature; -- applied to animals, as foxes, wild ducks, etc., in which no one can claim property..

Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) The ruddy duck.

Raven''s-duck :: Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth.

Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.

Team :: Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water..

Dipper :: Dipper (n.) The buffel duck.

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Ducker :: Ducker (n.) One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver..

Duck's-meat :: Duck's-meat (n.) Duckweed.

Sharptail :: Sharptail (n.) The pintail duck.

Poultry :: Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese..

Widgeon :: Widgeon (n.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (A. Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly..

Broadbill :: Broadbill (n.) A wild duck (Aythya, / Fuligula, marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck..

Querquedule :: Querquedule (n.) The pintail duck.

Anatine :: Anatine (a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

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