scaup

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English

Lesser scaup female

Etymology

See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).

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Noun

scaup (plural scaups or scaup)

  1. Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.
    • 2009 March 29, Deborah Baldwin, “A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop”, in New York Times‎:
      Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.
  2. (Scotland) Alternative form of scalp (“a bed or stratum of shellfish”)

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