anas penelope

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   freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals

   Synonymswidgeonwigeon

   Broaderduck

   NarrowerAmerican widgeon

   Part ofAnas

Questions about anas penelope

What does anas penelope mean?

anas penelope means "freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals".

What is another word for anas penelope?

Close synonyms include widgeon, wigeon. 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 penelope a common word?

anas penelope 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.