The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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From Susquehanna Flats to the Suisun marshes and from the Kankakee marshes to Pas a l'Outre all species of wild waterfowl had been scarce; canvasbacks, redheads, ruddy ducks, teals, gadwalls, widgeons, shovelers especially so.
From Time Magazine Archive
The blue and green-winged teal had already begun to fly; canvasbacks, mallards, widgeons, pintails, shovelers and redheads would follow soon, before and with the frost.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plovers, teal, or widgeons, come buy my pigeons.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
All sorts, lad: widgeons, teal, mallards, and some pochards.
From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn
In the depths of them are quiet and deep pools, frequented by various aquatic birds, such as geese, ducks, snipes, widgeons, kingfishers and ibis, cranes and storks, and pelicans.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
