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po⋅chard

  [poh-cherd, -kerd]
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–noun, plural -chards, (especially collectively) -chard.
1. an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
2. any of various related ducks, as the American redhead.
Origin:
1545–55; orig. uncert.
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po·chard   (pō'chərd)   
n.  Any of various diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. ferina of Europe and Asia, which has gray and black plumage and a reddish head.

[Origin unknown.]
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pochard

any of the 14 to 16 species of diving ducks of the tribe Aythyini (family Anatidae, order Anseriformes), often called bay ducks.

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