Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A North American diving duck (Aythya valisineria), having a reddish-brown head and neck and a whitish back in the male.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A North American duck of the family Anatidæ and subfamily Fuligulinæ, the Fuligula (or Aristonetta) vallisneria, highly esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A Species of duck (
Aythya vallisneria ), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
North American wildduck ,Aythya valisineria , popular as agame bird .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American wild duck valued for sport and food
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Never in this country has the writer tasted a more delicious breakfast dish than the blue winged teal of these waters, while the blackheads, mallards, and the variety which we call the canvasback were found in large numbers.
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901
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Don't you know, suh, that the burnin 'of a canvasback is a crime?
Colonel Carter of Cartersville Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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My wife wants me to shoot a mallard for the wall, I would like to have a canvasback.
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My current dawgz are great to the Nth power grand nephews of the canvasback chaser (Banks).
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I would agree with a canvasback or a drake widgeon.
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They was like amateurs blazin 'away at canvasback.
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My wife wants me to shoot a mallard for the wall, I would like to have a canvasback.
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And they learned to eat roasted mallard and canvasback in the
CHAPTER IX 2010
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I would agree with a canvasback or a drake widgeon.
bilby commented on the word canvasback
Sport? Food? No wonder he's depressed.
June 13, 2009