mallard
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| —n , pl -lard, -lards | |
| a duck, Anas platyrhynchos, common over most of the N hemisphere, the male of which has a dark green head and reddish-brown breast: the ancestor of all domestic breeds of duck | |
| [C14: from Old French mallart, perhaps from maslart (unattested); see | |
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mallard
early 14c., "wild drake or duck," from M.L. mallardus, apparently from male, from L. masculus (see male), in which case the original sense was probably not of a specific species but of any male wild duck. The specific sense of "male of the wild duck" was in M.E. (early 14c.).
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Mallard mortality rates on key breeding and wintering areas.
All pyrethrins are highly toxic for certain fish and slightly toxic for birds, such as mallard ducks.
Knowing a mallard from a merganser has another side: gourmets prefer a corn-fed mallard to the fish duck.
The mallard is considered an invasive species in new zealand.
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