shelduck

English

Etymology

sheld (“variegated”) + duck.

Noun

shelduck (plural shelducks or shelduck)

A shelduck.

1. Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Australian Shelduck
• Common Shelduck
• Paradise Shelduck

• Raja Shelduck
• Ruddy Shelduck
• South African Shelduck

Translations

waterfowl

• Burmese: စက္ကဝါက် (my) c (cakka.wak)
• Czech: husice
• Danish: gravand (da) c
• Esperanto: tadorno
• Faroese: kápureyð ont f
• Finnish: ristisorsa (fi)
• French: tadorne (fr)
• German: Kasarka m
• Greek: βαρβάρα (el) f (varvára)
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• Hungarian: ásólúd
• Italian: volpoca (it) f
• Portuguese: tadorna f
• Romanian: călifar (ro) m
• Russian: пега́нка (ru) f (pegánka)
• Spanish: tarro (es) m
• Swedish: gravand (sv) c
• Ukrainian: галагаз m (halahaz)
• Welsh: hwyaden yr eithin f

See also

• sheldrake