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canvasback

canvasback noun: a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.

canvasback: a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird
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Noun

canvasback (plural canvasbacks)

  1. A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
    • Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
    • The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and...1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24

canvasback meaning in Tamil

canvasback in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Forms of canvasback

pluralcanvasbacks

Origin of canvasback

From canvas + back.

Questions about canvasback

What does canvasback mean?
Canvasback means a North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.
What is canvasback in Tamil?
Canvasback in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Canvasback meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is canvasback?
Canvasback is a noun.
What is the plural of canvasback?
The plural of canvasback is canvasbacks.

Words near canvasback in the dictionary

  1. Canutism
  2. Canuto
  3. Canutos
  4. Canuxploitation
  5. canvas
  6. canvasback
  7. canvasbacks
  8. canvasboard
  9. canvasboards
  10. canvased
  11. canvaser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canvasback (page history and authors); canvasback (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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