Usually means: Small, diving duck, distinctive bill.
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  1. ruddy duck: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruddy duck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruddy duck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruddy duck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ruddy duck: Vocabulary.com
  6. ruddy duck: Wordnik
  7. ruddy duck: Wiktionary
  8. ruddy duck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ruddy duck: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Ruddy duck, ruddy duck: Dictionary.com
  11. Ruddy Duck, Ruddy duck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ruddy duck: Rhymezone
  13. ruddy duck: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ruddy duck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. ruddy duck: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ruddy duck: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ruddy duck)

▸ noun:  Oxyura jamaicensis, a small stifftail duck, the male of which has a rust-coloured body.

Similar:
oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy diver, stifftail, stiff-tailed duck, quilltail, ruddy shelduck, dunbird, Brahminy duck, mottled mallard, mottled duck, more...

Opposite:
black duck, white duck, mallard, teal, pintail

Types:
redhead, canvasback, ring-necked duck, greater scaup, lesser scaup, harlequin duck, more...

Adjectives:
brent, saddleback, trip, mute, sod, tidy, teal, ruff, swiftfoot, phasianid, whitewall

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Similar:
oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy diver, stifftail, stiff-tailed duck, quilltail, ruddy shelduck, dunbird, Brahminy duck, mottled mallard, mottled duck, more...

Opposite:
black duck, white duck, mallard, teal, pintail

Types:
redhead, canvasback, ring-necked duck, greater scaup, lesser scaup, harlequin duck, more...

Adjectives:
brent, saddleback, trip, mute, sod, tidy, teal, ruff, swiftfoot, phasianid, whitewall



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