wood widgeon

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   showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees

   Synonymswood ducksummer duckAix sponsa

   Broaderduck

   Narrowerwood drake

   Part ofAix

Questions about wood widgeon

What does wood widgeon mean?

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

What is another word for wood widgeon?

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

wood widgeon 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.