n. Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The sheldrake.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Same as sheldrake, 3.
n. The female of the sheldrake.
n. The red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator.
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n. female sheldrake
Word Usage
"Three Palaearctic species, golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) and ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) breed in the Bale Mountains, their only known breeding sites outside the north temperate zone."