Definition of Hooded sheldrake

1. Noun. Small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head.

Exact synonyms: Hooded Merganser, Lophodytes Cucullatus
Generic synonyms: Fish Duck, Merganser, Sawbill, Sheldrake
Group relationships: Genus Lophodytes, Lophodytes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooded Sheldrake

hood ornaments
hood rats
hood rich
hooded
hooded cloak
hooded coat
hooded crow
hooded crows
hooded ladies' tresses
hooded merganser
hooded pitcher plant
hooded prepuce
hooded seal
hooded seals
hooded sheldrake (current term)
hooded skunk
hooded tinamou
hooded tinamous
hoodedness
hoodednesses
hoodening
hoodia
hoodias
hoodie
hoodiecrow
hoodiecrows
hoodier
hoodies
hoodiest

Literary usage of Hooded sheldrake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Labrador Coast: A Journal of Two Summer Cruises to that Region by Alpheus Spring Packard (1891)
"hooded sheldrake. Stearns, p. 121, records it as rather rare, but occasional in Southern Labrador. f 1/o. Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). Common Cormorant. ..."

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