Scaup Definition

skôp

scaups

noun

scaups

Either of two diving ducks (Aythya marila or A. affinis) of the Northern Hemisphere, the male of which has gray, black, and white plumage.

American Heritage

Any of several wild ducks of the same genus (Aythya) as the redhead, canvasback, etc.

Webster's New World

(Scotland) Alternative form of scalp; a bed or stratum of shellfish.

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scaup

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scaups

Short for scaup-duck perhaps from Scots scalp, scaup bed of mussels (from its feeding on shellfish)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels").

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