shelduck
noun
a sheldrake.
shelducks
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pluralof shelduck.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the shallow pool outside the Dzong were swimming bar-headed geese and ruddy shelducks, with families of young birds, all as tame as domestic poultry.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Here we found a colony of white-rumped swifts nesting high up in cliffs and ruddy shelducks nesting in holes among the loose boulders below.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
