scaup duck

Questions about scaup duck

What does scaup duck mean?

scaup duck means "diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill".

What is another word for scaup duck?

Close synonyms include scaup, bluebill, broadbill. 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 scaup duck a common word?

scaup 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.