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Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill
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scaup
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scaup is the common name three species of diving duck: Greater scaup or just scaup, Aythya marila Lesser scaup , Aythya affinis New Zealand scaup , Aythya novaeseelandiae
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus ''Aythya''.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaup \Scaup\ (sk[add]p), n. [See Scalp a bed of oysters or mussels.] A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.] (Zo["o]l.) A scaup duck. See below. Scaup duck (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya , or Fuligula ...
Usage examples of scaup.
Glen Coe is an uncommon high, weather-glim scaup o land in the north of Argyll, no far frae Fort William.
Actually, left to right, they're a merganser, a pintail, and a lesser scaup.