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n. Any of various large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, especially T. tadorna, having predominantly black and white plumage. Also called shelduck.

n. See merganser.

n. An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna.

n. A merganser.

n. A male shelduck.

n. Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (Tadorna cornuta syn. Tadorna tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.

n. Any one of the American mergansers.

n. A duck of either of the genera Tadorna and Casarca.

n. The shoveler-duck, Spatula clypeata, whose variegated plumage somewhat resembles that of the sheldrake.

n. A merganser or goosander; especially, the red-breasted merganser, also called shelduck.

n. The canvasback duck.

n. large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges

n. Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill

"A subspecies of the critically endangered crested shelduck, called Kuroda's sheldrake Tadorna cristata kuroda, once occurred along the southern coast of Korea."

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