cinnamon teal

American  

noun

1. a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.

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Etymology

Origin of cinnamon teal

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

For 30 minutes we watch a northern harrier on the hunt, dive-bombing blue-winged and cinnamon teal, though he always comes up empty.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

They saw cinnamon teal and hummingbirds near the coast rather than inland, and western sandpipers and dunlins were switching to kelp flies on the beach instead of insects in a flooded meadow.

From National Geographic • Jul. 16, 2015

These include blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and northern pintails.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2011

To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cinnamon teal waddled onto the bank and preened its feathers.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer