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DIVING DUCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diving duck mean?
• DIVING DUCK (noun)
The noun DIVING DUCK has 1 sense:
1. any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food
Familiarity information: DIVING DUCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("diving duck" is a kind of...):
duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)
Antonym:
dabbling duck (any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling)
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