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mallard

Syllables: mal·lardUK/ˈmælˌɑːd//ˈmælɚd/

mallard noun: anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

mallard: anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern...
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Noun

mallard (plural mallards or mallard)

  1. (countable) Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.
  2. (uncountable) The meat of this bird, eaten as food.

Proper noun capitalized: Mallard

Mallard (countable and uncountable, plural Mallards)

  1. A surname.
  2. A minor city in Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States, named for the duck.
  3. A ghost town in Itasca Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States, named after a nearby lake.

mallard meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

mallard in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

mallard in Marathi

a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
चतुरंग बदक caturaṅga badak

mallard in Urdu

جنگلی بطخ

mallard in Bengali

a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos
নীলশির nilośir
More languagesFewer languages
mallard in Assamese
পাতিহাঁহ patihãh, আমৰ’লীয়া হাঁহ amorölia hãh
mallard in Tagalog
papaw
mallard in Persian
مرغابی سرسبز morġâbi-ye sarsabz, اردک سرسبز ordak-e sarsabz
Kashmiri
پٔچھِن pạchin, نِلٕج nilụj, تھُج thuj

Forms of mallard

Noun
pluralmallards
pluralmallard
alternative form (obsolete)maudelard
Proper noun
pluralMallards

Plural of mallard: mallards or mallard

Origin of mallard

From Middle English malard, mawlard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.

Eponymised form of mallard.

Words formed from mallard

Questions about mallard

What does mallard mean?
Mallard means anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.
What is mallard in Tamil?
Mallard in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Mallard meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mallard?
Mallard can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mallard?
Mallard is pronounced /ˈmælˌɑːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of mallard?
The plural of mallard is mallards.

Words near mallard in the dictionary

  1. mallanders
  2. Mallanganee
  3. mallangong
  4. mallangongs
  5. Mallaranny
  6. mallard
  7. mallardite
  8. mallards
  9. Mallari
  10. Mallaris
  11. mallarky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mallard (page history and authors); Mallard (page history and authors); mallard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mallard (Urdu 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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