WordNet
n. North American wild duck valued for sport and food [syn: canvasback, Aythya valisineria]
Usage examples of "canvasback duck".
Hay himself drank only one glass of wine during the dinner, whose two principal features were a thick terrapin soup and canvasback duck, which Herndon had never tasted before.
It is now two in the morning, and for some time the terrapin has been warring with the canvasback duck, whose eagle-like beak tears at my Promethean liver.
That takes in caviare, smoked canvasback duck, salmon, finest aged fillet steak.
The courtly black waiter, more family butler than mere restaurant worker, said that it was, it was, and proposed diamond terrapin, a house specialty, and, of course, canvasback duck, which would be served, Caroline knew, bloody and terrible.
Yes, I'm partial to canvasback duck and soft-shell crabs when I can get 'em, but what Baltimorean isn't?