mallard
noun
a common, almost cosmopolitan, wild duck, Anas platyrhynchos, from which the domestic ducks are descended.
mallards
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pluralof mallard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“It brings back memories of hunkering down behind an old cottonwood drift log…drinking black coffee from a Stanley thermos and waiting for mallards to whistle by,” he mused on Facebook, where he does his campaigning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Waldenström’s team now equips black-headed gulls and mallards with transmitters that cellphone towers and satellites can track.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2023
The rest of the room brims with other birds in her care, including robins, baby starlings, wood ducklings, mallards and two owls — an Eastern screech and a barred.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
We passed mallards, a honking gaggle of Canadian geese and a woman casting her fishing line off the cement banks of the river as we pedaled toward the west side of the bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
Helmuth nods, and Rudi grows silent, giving the bobbing mallards his undivided attention.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
