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WIGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wigeon mean? 

WIGEON (noun)
  The noun WIGEON has 1 sense:

1. freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and tealsplay

  Familiarity information: WIGEON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WIGEON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Anas penelope; widgeon; wigeon

Hypernyms ("wigeon" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wigeon"):

American widgeon; Anas americana; baldpate (a widgeon the male of which has a white crown)

Holonyms ("wigeon" is a member of...):

Anas; genus Anas (type genus of the Anatidae: freshwater ducks)


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