Canvasback is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANVASBACK in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a species of duck, so named from the markings of the plumage on its back
• a North American diving duck with a long, sloping black bill, related to the common pochard.
• A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.
• North American wild duck valued for sport and food
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a North American wild duck (Aythya valisineria) that has a reddish-brown head, black breast, and whitish body and is characterized especially by the elongate sloping profile of the bill and head

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Words that contain CANVASBACK

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How to use CANVASBACK in a sentence

• These lakes furnish food for the canvasback duck in the various grasses and other growths, of which they are extremely fond.
• Say, neighbor, did you ever hunt those big mountain canvasback? If you have, you know the story.
• I saw one old canvasback drake, however, peck at another duck.
• I managed to land, among others, a beautiful canvasback drake.
• Seven guns had killed 118 ducks, fifty of them canvasback.
• He is a twin brother of the Canvasback, and quite as good to eat.
• There the canvas-back duck, in a little flock, broke the Sabbath to dive for the wild celery that grows beneath the sound.
• You must dispense terrapin, and canvas-back ducks, and rare brands of champagne, in lordly dining-halls, or your place is certain to be secondary.
• The whole Bunch rode gaily on the Top Wave of the Social Swim, with a Terrapin as an Escort and a squad of Canvas-Back Ducks as Body-Guard.
• Essentially it costs me as much to lunch off a boiled egg, served in my dining room at home, as to carve the breast off a canvasback.
• That boiled egg or the canvasback represents a running expense of at least a hundred dollars a day.
• Almost the whole family, if we except the canvas-back and the red-head, visit it at one or another period.

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