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单词 sord
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Definition of sord in English:

sord

noun
rare

  • A group of mallards.

    a sord of mallards on the wing
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A sord of mallards dive for food.
    • I had come to observe so we passed a 'sord' of mallards by harmlessly.
    • In a sord of mallards, the breeding male stands out with his green head, black rear, and yellowish orange bill tipped with black.
    • I stood on the shoreline observing a sord of mallards paddling around.

Origin

Late Middle English: from obsolete sord 'to rise or soar up', via Old French from Latin surgere 'to rise'; first found in a medieval glossary of collective terms.
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