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Definition of Eider duck

1. Noun. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eider Duck

Literary usage of Eider duck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"The fact that the eider duck breeds on our eastern coasts, must be interesting to the American ornithologist, whose fauna possesses but few birds of this ..."

2. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"must see the eider duck, so as to enable him to acknowledge his error. However beauteous and brilliant may be the plumage of the feathered denizens of ..."

3. A History of British Birds: The Figures Engraved on Wood by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"... THE eider duck. ST CUTHBERT-S DUCK, OR GREAT BLACK AND WHITE DUCK. (Anas mollissima, Lin. ... eider duck ..."

4. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1856)
"A few have occurred by the shore, and even inland, in other parts of the country. An eider duck was killed in Berkshire, at Sunning, during a very severe ..."

5. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THE eider duck, though indigenous to some of the northern parts of England, as well as several of the Scottish Islands, is only a winter visitor to the ..."

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