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Source of soft feathers
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eider duck
Word definitions for eider duck in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females [syn: eider ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eider \Ei"der\, n. [Of Scand. origin, cf. Icel [ae]?r; akin to Sw. eider, Dan. ederfugl.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria , esp. Somateria mollissima , which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest ...
Usage examples of eider duck.
The arctic column showed a polar bear, a walrus, a Greenland seal, a reindeer, a right whale, an eider duck.