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Definition of canvasback in English: canvasbacknounˈkanvəsbakˈkænvəsˌbæk A North American diving duck with a long, sloping black bill, related to the common pochard. （北美的）帆背潜鸭 Aythya valisineria, family Anatidae Example sentencesExamples - From time to time, the pond has hosted the locally rare redhead, a member of the group to which scaup, the canvasback and ring-necked duck belong.
- Two ducks common in the winter marsh - the canvasback and greater scaup - are now up in the Yukon and the Seward Peninsula.
- The ponds also attract black ducks, canvasbacks, American wigeons, lesser and greater scaups, green- and blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and herons.
- And the hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl that stop there every winter include mallards, canvasback ducks, blue-winged and green-winged teals, and wood ducks.
- Of the 35,000 canvasbacks that winter annually on San Francisco Bay, about 10 percent spend time in Viansa Wetlands.
OriginLate 16th century: so named because of the white back of the male. Definition of canvasback in US English: canvasbacknounˈkanvəsˌbakˈkænvəsˌbæk A North American diving duck with a long, sloping black bill, related (and with similar coloring) to the pochard, common in Eurasia. （北美的）帆背潜鸭 Aythya valisineria, family Anatidae Example sentencesExamples - And the hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl that stop there every winter include mallards, canvasback ducks, blue-winged and green-winged teals, and wood ducks.
- From time to time, the pond has hosted the locally rare redhead, a member of the group to which scaup, the canvasback and ring-necked duck belong.
- Of the 35,000 canvasbacks that winter annually on San Francisco Bay, about 10 percent spend time in Viansa Wetlands.
- Two ducks common in the winter marsh - the canvasback and greater scaup - are now up in the Yukon and the Seward Peninsula.
- The ponds also attract black ducks, canvasbacks, American wigeons, lesser and greater scaups, green- and blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and herons.
OriginLate 16th century: so named because of the white back of the male. |