wood duck

Questions about wood duck

What does wood duck mean?

wood duck means "showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees".

What is another word for wood duck?

Close synonyms include summer duck, wood widgeon, Aix sponsa. 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 wood duck a common word?

wood duck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wood duck come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.