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Definition of Scaup

1. Noun. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill.

Definition of Scaup

1. n. A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp.

Definition of Scaup

1. Noun. Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus ''Aythya''. ¹

2. Noun. (Scotland) (alternative form of scalp); a bed or stratum of shellfish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scaup

1. a sea duck [n -S]

Medical Definition of Scaup

1. 1. A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. 2. A scaup duck. See below. Scaup duck, any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck (Aythya marila, var. Nearctica), Synonym: broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck (A. Affinis), Synonym: little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck (A. Collaris), Synonym: black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck (A.marila), closely resembles the American variety. See: Scalp a bed of oysters or mussels. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Scaup

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

1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1844)
"ALEXANDER WILSON figured a scaup Duck, but in his description of the adult in winter, he says that "the irides" are "reddish," and yet he says that the ..."

2. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"The opinion, derived from WILSON'S account of the scaup Duck, that it is met with only ... The scaup Duck seems to float less lightly than it really does, ..."

3. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"LESSER scaup (Marila affinis}. Common or local names: Little Bluebill; River Broad-bill; Creek Broad-bill; Raft Duck; and other names that are also applied ..."

4. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"The scaup duck, or blue-bill, is not so generally common in the United KiB. ... The lesser scaup, or little blue-bill, ia abundant during migrations OM i ..."

5. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1852)
"scaup Duck. Mont. Ornith. Diet . and Supplt. Canard Milouin. ... The scaup Pochard, a little larger and more robust than the Tufted, is of the same form and ..."

6. Wild Fowl Shooting: Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild by William Bruce Leffingwell (1888)
"THE Blue-bill, or scaup-duck, is well known throughout the Western States. ... The name scaup-duck is used but little, if at all, in the West, ..."

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