muscovy duck

1. 1.

   large crested wild duck of Central America and South America; widely domesticated

   Synonymsmusk duckCairina moschata

   Broaderduck

   Part ofCairina

Questions about muscovy duck

What does muscovy duck mean?

muscovy duck means "large crested wild duck of Central America and South America; widely domesticated".

What is another word for muscovy duck?

Close synonyms include musk duck, Cairina moschata. 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 muscovy duck a common word?

muscovy 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.