noun
pl. -·walls· or -·wall· a grayish-brown wild duck (Anas strepera) of the freshwater regions of North America
Origin of gadwall
from uncertain or unknown; perhapsgadwall
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gadwall
noun
A duck (Anas strepera) having gray or brown plumage, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Noun
(plural gadwalls)
- Anas strepera, a common and widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere.
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- The spelling "gadwall" seems to be first found in Willughby in 1676, and has been generally adopted by later writers; but Merrett, in 1667, has "gaddel" (Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum, p. 180), saying that it was so called by bird-dealers.
- Here, too, breed many species of ducks, the mallard, gadwall, baldpate, three species of teal, shoveler, pintail, hooded mergansers, and Canada geese; other ducks and geese are migrants only.
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