Mallard Definition

mălərd
mallards
noun
mallards
The common wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos), from which the domestic duck is descended: the male has a green or bluish-black head, a thin band of white around the neck, and a rusty breast.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Mallard

Noun

Singular:
mallard
Plural:
mallards

Origin of Mallard

  • Middle English malarde from Old French malart mallard drake possibly from male male male -art, -ard -ard

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English malarde, Old French malart, mallart (“wild duck"), possibly derived from male, malle (“male") +"Ž -ard.

    From Wiktionary

Mallard Sentence Examples

  • The ducks include the mallard, black duck, canvas-back and red-head; the Canadian goose, the snowy goose and the blue goose also appear during the migrating seasons.

  • Her phone rang, and she saw Dr. Mallard's number flash on the screen.

  • 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.

  • Sofia, this is Dr. Mallard.

  • The drug wore off, leaving her in a dark fog, hot and sweating with a different kind of headache, the kind she got after taking a lot of Dr. Mallard's drugs.

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Words Starting With

MMAMAL

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DRDARD

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