anas acuta

1. 1.

   long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers

   Synonymspintailpin-tailed duck

   Broaderduck

   Part ofAnas

Questions about anas acuta

What does anas acuta mean?

anas acuta means "long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers".

What is another word for anas acuta?

Close synonyms include pintail, pin-tailed duck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anas acuta a common word?

anas acuta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.