wood widgeon

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.

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