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Sheldrake

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Noun

1. fish duck, merganser, sawbill, sheldrake

large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges

2. sheldrake

Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sheldrake

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nounWord forms: plural sheldrake or sheldrakes

the male of any of various large usually brightly coloured gooselike ducks, such as Tadorna tadorna (common shelduck), of the Old World

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Sheldrake

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nounWord forms: plural ˈshelˌdrakes or ˈshelˌdrake

1.

shelduck

2.

merganser

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sheldrake

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n.

1. See shelduck.

2. See merganser.

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