a large goose-like Old World duck with brightly coloured plumage, typically showing black and white wings in flight 麻鸭,翘鼻麻鸭
Genus Tadorna, family Anatidae: several species, in particular T. tadorna of Eurasian coasts, with white, greenish-black, and chestnut plumage 麻鸭属,鸭科:数种,尤指欧亚沿海的翘鼻麻鸭,羽毛呈白、墨绿和 栗色
语源
early 18th cent.: probably from dialect sheld 'pied' (related to Middle Dutch schillede 'variegated') + duck. The form shelduck dates from Middle English