English
Noun
Muscovy duck (plural Muscovy ducks)
- An anatide genus Cairina moschata, a large duck which is native to Mexico, Central and South America.
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2001 August 31, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:- Other species not protected include "exotic and feral species such as mute swans, graylag geese, muscovy ducks, European starlings, house (English) sparrows, and rock doves (pigeons)."
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1847, Mayne Reid, Popular Adventure Tales:- Over the water swept the great harpy eagle--also a fisher like his white-headed cousin of the North; and now and then flocks of muscovy ducks made the air resound with their strong broad wings.
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Translations
duck
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 疣鼻棲鴨 (yóu bí qī yā)
- Dutch: muskuseend m, f, barbarieeend m, f
- Esperanto: moska anaso
- Finnish: myskisorsa (fi)
- French: (wild species) canard musqué (fr) m, (domesticated form) canard de Barbarie (fr) m
- German: Moschusente f
- Italian: anatra muschiata f, anatra muta f
- Norman: moscovie f
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- Norwegian: moskusand m, knoppand m
- Polish: piżmówka amerykańska f, kaczka piżmowa f
- Portuguese: pato-selvagem m, (Brazil) pato-do-mato (pt) m, (Portugal) pato-mudo m
- Russian: му́скусная у́тка (ru) f (múskusnaja útka)
- Spanish: pato criollo (es) m, pato mudo m, pato almizclado m
- Swedish: (wild form) myskand (sv) c, (domesticated form) myskanka c
- Vietnamese: ngan (vi), vịt xiêm
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