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SEA DUCK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea duck" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea duck"):

eider; eider duck (duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females)

scooter; scoter (large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere)

Clangula hyemalis; old squaw; oldwife (a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States)

fish duck; merganser; sawbill; sheldrake (large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges)

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