gray duck
noun
any of several ducks in which certain immature or female plumages are predominantly gray, as the gadwall and the pintail.
Origin of gray duck
1First recorded in 1880–85
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How to use gray duck in a sentence
Against them lay a gray duck, with snowy breast; then, deer-meat, and various kinds of fishes.
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