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Muscovy duck   Listen
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Muscovy duck  n.  (Zool.) A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil.






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"Muscovy duck" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the advent of a big, blowsy woman, who was blazing with diamonds, whose face was good-natured, but who seemed ill at ease. She was like a Muscovy duck among game fowl. She was well received by the mass and overlooked by the few, and, being a woman, though of no acute comprehension, she understood vaguely her condition. She was unhappy, and there was ...
— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo



Words linked to "Muscovy duck" :   musk duck, genus Cairina



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