canvasback

1. 1.

   North American wild duck valued for sport and food

   Synonymscanvasback duckAythya valisineria

   Broaderduck

   Part ofAythya

Other forms of canvasback

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about canvasback

What does canvasback mean?

canvasback means "North American wild duck valued for sport and food".

How many syllables are in canvasback?

canvasback has 3 syllables: can-vas-back. The stress falls on "can".

What is another word for canvasback?

Close synonyms include canvasback duck, Aythya valisineria. 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 canvasback a common word?

canvasback 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.