cinnamon teal
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cinnamon teal
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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
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