WILD DUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild duck mean? 

• WILD DUCK (noun)
  The noun WILD DUCK has 1 sense:

1. an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard)

  Familiarity information: WILD DUCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD DUCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An undomesticated duck (especially a mallard)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wild duck" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

 Context examples 

All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)