Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small dabbling ducks, chiefly of the genus Anas, often having brightly marked plumage.
- noun A moderate or dark bluish green to greenish blue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small fresh-water duck, of the subfamily Anatinæ and genus Querquedula (or Nettion).
- noun The blue-winged teal.
- noun The act of cajoling or wheedling.
- noun A Welsh dry measure, equal to five Winchester bushels (nearly). A long teal in Pembrokeshire is about eight bushels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.
- noun a goslet. See
Goslet . - noun the common European teal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various small freshwater
ducks of the genusAnas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. - noun colour A dark, somewhat
bluish -green colour ; a darkcyan . - adjective colour having a bluish-green colour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a blue-green color or pigment
- noun any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
- adjective of a bluish shade of green
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word teal sounded just as odd, as foreign, as yoga.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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The word teal sounded just as odd, as foreign, as yoga.
Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010
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They quickly proposed a Chadian husband for me, and showed me the Chadian version of the women's day wear -- it comes in teal there -- sweet!
Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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They quickly proposed a Chadian husband for me, and showed me the Chadian version of the women's day wear -- it comes in teal there -- sweet!
Cameroonian Vacay Part I: Chad and the Extreme North Kate Fleurange 2009
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The only way in the world to serve a canvas-back or a mallard, or a sprig, or even the toothsome teal, is as follows: The plucked bird should be stuffed with a tight handful of plain raw celery and, in a piping oven, roasted variously 8,9,10, or even 11 minutes, according to the size of bird and heat of oven.
Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits 2010
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In his 1,208th career game, Lemieux got his first penalty minutes in teal with his first scrap in about eight years, by his own count.
USATODAY.com 2008
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The mostly black cards are lovely, the touch of teal is beautiful.
Sunday: work done, winners drawn, pay it forward (again) katelnorth 2007
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That's already been done in teal by teammate Evgeni Nabokov - and Toskala also found the net before.
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Selanne, a San Jose favorite during his 2 1/2 seasons in teal, scored his 82nd point in 54 career games against the Sharks with his fast-break goal.
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Feel free, then, to make this David in teal vs. Goliath in pinstripes.
USATODAY.com - World Series pits two teams that refuse to quit 2003
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