| ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
| pond scum | free-floating freshwater green algae |
hadrosaur
hadrosaurus
duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
| duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
| diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck
dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck
Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck
Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck
Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
canvasback
canvasback duck
Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup
scaup duck
bluebill
broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup
lesser scaup duck
lake duck
Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
| wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck
summer duck
wood widgeon
Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
mandarin duck
Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck
musk duck
Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
| sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider
eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser
fish duck
sawbill
sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
platypus
duckbill duckbilled platypus
duck-billed platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
| duck down | down of the duck |
water strider
pond-skater
water skater | long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water |
common pond-skater
Gerris lacustris | a variety of water strider |
| Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
bird shot
buckshot
duck shot | small lead shot for shotgun shells |
| duck | a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing and tents |
| duck | flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) |
| pond apple | ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peacholored flesh, related to custard apples |
duck sauce
hoisin sauce | a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment |
| duck pate | a pate made from duck liver |
| cold duck | pink sparkling wine originally from Germany |
pond
pool | a small lake, the pond was too small for sailing |
| duck hunter | hunter of ducks |
kook
odd fellow
odd fish
queer bird
queer duck
odd man out d | someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group |
| lame duck | an elected official still in office but not slated to continue |
sitting duck
easy mark | a defenseless victim |
pond pine
Pinus serotina | large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States, needles longer than those of the northern pitch pine |
bald cypress
swamp cypress
pond bald cypress
southern cypress
Taxodium distichum | common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base, found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms |
pond cypress
bald cypress Taxodium ascendens | smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum |
pond apple
pond-apple tree
Annona glabra | small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit, used chiefly as grafting stock |
water nymph fragrant water lily
pond lily
Nymphaea odorata | a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water, of temperate and tropical regions |
spatterdock
cow lily
yellow pond lily
Nuphar advena | common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers, in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water |
mosquito fern
floating fern
Carolina pond fern
Azolla caroliniana | small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America, naturalized in western and southern Europe |
| pond-scum parasite | an aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum |
duck
duck's egg | (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman |
| dead duck | something doomed to failure, he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck, the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck, as theories go, that's a dead duck |
b hedge
fudge
evade
put off circumvent
parry
elude
skirt
dodge
duck
sidestep | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues), He dodged the issue, she skirted the problem, They tend to evade their responsibilities, he evaded the questions skillfully |
| duck | to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away, Before he could duck, another stone struck him |
| duck | submerge or plunge suddenly |