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from The Century Dictionary.
- The duck tribe considered as a prime division of desmognathous carinate birds having the same technical characters as, and being conterminous with, the family Anatidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.
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ruzuzu commented on the word chenomorphae
"The duck tribe considered as a prime division of desmognathous carinate birds having the same technical characters as, and being conterminous with, the family Anatidæ." --Cent. Dict.
June 6, 2012
sionnach commented on the word chenomorphae
What? Ducks belong to tribes now? (Insert joke about inadvisability of ducks taking presents of duvets from visiting flocks of geese ..... a joke so lame it quacks me right up ...)
June 6, 2012