diving duck

1. 1.

   any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food

   Antonymsdabbling duck

   Broaderduck

Questions about diving duck

What does diving duck mean?

diving duck means "any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food".

What is the opposite of diving duck?

The recorded antonyms are dabbling duck.

Is diving duck a common word?

diving duck 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.