mallard

Converse of object

• include: Their eagerly awaited game menu will include mallard, teal, pigeon, venison and later in the season, pheasant.
• see: I remember looking down and seeing a mallard sitting tight on her nest among the wild garlic.
• breed: The large islands near the eastern shore support breeding mallard mute swan and Canada goose.
• have: We had a momma mallard stroll through a few years ago.

Adjective modifier

• wild: The water in different mood falls over a rocky ledge, divides round a tiny island, home to a pair of wild mallard.
• female: They are much daintier and more slender than female mallards, and often have markedly orange heads and necks.
• young: We saw the first of the young mallard on 15 April.

Modifies a noun

• duck: There's three greedy mallard ducks who are just knocking at my door.
• drake: There, he found a plump mallard drake lying on the springy turf.
• duckling: A clutch of mallard ducklings huddle on a stone by the Coalport Canal, while their mother stands guard.

Noun used with modifier

• drake: But, she wasn't feeding she was chasing away a drake mallard.
• hen: Along the stream we caught a glimpse of a couple of hen mallards, shepherding a brood of ducklings between them.