Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small migratory duck (Anas querquedula) that breeds in Eurasia and has a white stripe over each eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of teal, the summer teal, Anas querquedula or Querquedula circia, inhabiting the temperate and southern portions of the palearctic region, a summer visitor to Great Britain, and common in India in winter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small European duck (
Anas querquedula ); -- called alsocricket teal , andsummer teal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
dabbling duck ,Anas querquedula , that breeds in much ofEurope and westernAsia , and winters inAfrica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small Eurasian teal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Holkham national nature reserve will be holding a storytelling session on 5 August to mark Gruffalo Day, inspiring kids to explore its 4,000 hectares in pursuit of the grizzly creature, along with other rare species including natterjack toads, barn owls, marsh harriers, lapwings and the monstrous-sounding garganey, which is in fact a harmless rare species of duck.
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A French designer born in Paris Mr. Jean Bousquet established the company in 1964 was name derived from the word 'garganey'.
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In the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands the most common waterbirds are white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata), garganey (Anas querquedula), northern pintail (Anas acuta), and ruff (Philomachus pugnax).
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At the beginning of the month the garganey teal are almost the only migratory ducks to be seen on them.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Towards the end of the month the garganey or blue-winged teal (_Querquedula circia_), which are the earliest of the migratory ducks to visit India, appear on the tanks.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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Of the migratory species only a few shovellers and garganey teal tarry till May.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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The Hindu that the great white pelican, the garganey, the little stint and the temnick stint were the new visitors.
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The Hindu that the great white pelican, the garganey, the little stint and the temnick stint were the new visitors.
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The Hindu that the great white pelican, the garganey, the little stint and the temnick stint were the new visitors.
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More than 31 threatened mammals, including the sloth bear, leopard and water buffalo and birds, including painted stork, open billed stork, garganey, pin tail and whistling teal have been identified in the park, warden Weerasinghe Dissanayake was quoted as saying.
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