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Muscovy duck
noun
- a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
Muscovy duck
noun
- a large crested widely domesticated South American duck, Cairina moschata, having a greenish-black plumage with white markings and a large red caruncle on the bill
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Muscovy duck1
First recorded in 1650–60
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Muscovy duck1
C17: originally musk duck, a name later mistakenly associated with Muscovy
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Example Sentences
The Muscovy Duck, which is of a different species, has a bare face with a carunculated red skin.
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The Muscovy duck, for instance, is pretty well distributed throughout Bantu Africa, but it has no common widely-spread name.
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The offspring of birds as much alike as the domestic goose and the large Muscovy duck will not propagate their species.
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The muscovy duck is a distinct species which has been domesticated elsewhere and introduced.
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Out of one canoe we got a goose, which was about the size of a Muscovy duck.
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