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Cairina moschata
Muscovy duck Mus"co*vy duck` [A corruption of musk duck.] (Zo["o]l.) A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil.
Cairina moschata
Duck Duck, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ] 1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatin[ae], family Anatid[ae]. Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc. 2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. --Milton. Bombay duck (Zo["o]l.), a fish. See Bummalo. Buffel duck, or Spirit duck. See Buffel duck. Duck ant (Zo["o]l.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees. Duck barnacle. (Zo["o]l.) See Goose barnacle. Duck hawk. (Zo["o]l.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard. Duck mole (Zo["o]l.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets

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- gentlemen". Dispatches. Irish Times. Retrieved 1 December 2019. Sunderland, Cairin (11 December 2017). "The Irish men of the French Foreign Legion". Features...
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- ISBN 0899503624. Ní Mheachair, Gabrielle, Ó Meachair: The Story of a Clan, Ui Cairin Press (2014) Maher Matters This page lists people with the surname Ó Meachair...
- 'Jupiter's Children'". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 26 January 2015. Cairins, Bryan; Edwards, Molly (April 22, 2021). "How Carrie Fisher's memoir inspired...
- Dunkerrin (Irish: Dún Cairin) is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland, just south of Roscrea and near the County Tipperary border. It is on the R445...
- half-barony (with Eliogarty) in the Down Survey. Name means "descendants of Cairín." Tipperary Kilnamanagh Lower Coill na Manach Íochtarach Divided in 1838...
- of a fall. 1462. An army was led by Mac William of Clanrickard into Hy-Cairin, where O'Meagher, i.e. Teige, and his confederates, rose up to oppose him...