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Definition of Mandarin duck
1. Noun. Showy crested Asiatic duck; often domesticated.
Definition of Mandarin duck
1. Noun. a perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, (spelink Aix galericulata) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandarin Duck
Literary usage of Mandarin duck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shooting in China by Thomas R. Jernigan (1908)
"The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is the most gorgeously plumaged of any of
the ducks. Once it was fairly common in both provinces of Kiangsu and ..."
2. The National Zoological Park: A Popular Account of Its Collections by Ned Hollister (1919)
"A large flock of the most strikingly ornamental and curiously colored mandarin duck
... mandarin duck ..."
3. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"The word mandarin has also been used, by foreigners in China, to distinguish a
lovely species of duck of beautiful plumage—the mandarin duck (anas ..."
Other Resources:
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