Crossword-Solution: GADWALL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gadwall | n. | A large duck (Anas strepera), valued as a game bird, found in the northern parts of Europe and America; -- called also gray duck. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “GADWALL”
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| ANAS strepera | 1 answer |
| type of duck related to the mallard | 1 answer |
| GREY duck | 3 answers |
| FRESHWATER duck | 5 answers |
| type of duck | 15 answers |
| Duck | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GADWALL (5)
The mallard, gadwall, widgeon, pintail, the various species of pochard and the common teal are rapidly disappearing.
Ducks winter by the thousand, and, most unexpectedly, some even of the northern kinds, like the gadwall, now stay to breed.
Among the other genera of _Anatinae_, we must content ourselves by saying that both in Europe and in North America there are the groups represented by the shoveller, garganey, gadwall, teal, pintail and widgeon--each of which, according to some systematists, is the type of a distinct genus.
GADWALL, a word of obscure origin,[1] the common English name of the duck, called by Linnaeus _Anas strepera_, but considered by many modern ornithologists to require removal from the genus _Anas_ to that of _Chaulelasmus_ or _Ctenorhynchus_, of either of which it is almost the sole species.
The gadwall is a bird of some interest in England, since it is one of the few that have been induced, by the protection afforded them in certain localities, to resume the indigenous position they once filled, but had, through the draining and reclaiming of marshy lands, long since abandoned.