Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two freshwater dabbling ducks, Anas americana of the Americas or A. penelope primarily of Eurasia and Africa, having a grayish or brownish back and a white belly and wing coverts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
widgeon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), rare A widgeon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of three freshwater
dabbling ducks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The wigeon is a beautiful duck that originated in Europe and Asia.
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Northern pintail, shoveler, green-winged teal and mallard are most numerous, but a discerning eye will spot many types of ducks such as wigeon, cinnamon teal, gadwall and varieties of divers like canvasback, ring-necked and ruddy ducks.
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As usual the noisiest birds were the drake wigeon with their musical double whistle, which is very penetrating.
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Photographer Anthony Gibson was lucky enough to capture an attempt by this lynx to grab an American wigeon in Alaska's Denali National Park.
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From below and almost through the middle of these lapwings blasts a denser flock of wigeon with even greater urgency.
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Knot spun away in a grey miniature cloud, wigeon split up into small groups while the redshanks did not seem to know what to do.
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"One wigeon nearby had its head underwater and was completely clueless the whole time."
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In the larger channels and pools wigeon are dabbling.
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More wigeon, and a few flocks of teal fly in, descending on to the dark water before clambering out on to the muddy ground.
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The main birds were oystercatchers, knot and wigeon.
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February 19, 2010
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Well, they're absolutely right. The future is wigeon,coot after all. ;-)
February 22, 2010