scaup : Idioms & Phrases

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greater scaup

  • noun large scaup of North America having a greenish iridescence on the head of the male
    Aythya marila.
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lesser scaup

  • noun common scaup of North America; males have purplish heads
    Aythya affinis; lake duck; lesser scaup.
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lesser scaup duck

  • noun common scaup of North America; males have purplish heads
    Aythya affinis; lake duck; lesser scaup.
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Scaup duck

  • noun diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
    bluebill; scaup; broadbill.
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  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck (Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck (A. affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck (A. collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck (A.marila), closely resembles the American variety.
Webster 1913