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whistling duck

whistling duck noun: any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.

whistling duck: any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan
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Noun

whistling duck (plural whistling ducks)

  1. Any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.

whistling duck meaning in Hindi, Assamese and Vietnamese

whistling duck in Hindi

whistling duck, whistling teal
सिल्ली sillī

whistling duck in Assamese

bird of the genus Dendrocygna
শৰালি xorali, শৰালি হাঁহ xorali hãh

whistling duck in Vietnamese

bird of the genus Dendrocygna
le le

Forms of whistling duck

pluralwhistling ducks

Words formed from whistling duck

Questions about whistling duck

What does whistling duck mean?
Whistling duck means any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.
What is whistling duck in Hindi?
Whistling duck in Hindi is सिल्ली (sillī). See Whistling duck meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is whistling duck?
Whistling duck is a noun.
What is the plural of whistling duck?
The plural of whistling duck is whistling ducks.

Words near whistling duck in the dictionary

  1. whistling buoy
  2. whistling buoys
  3. Whistling Cay
  4. whistling Dixie
  5. whistling down the wind
  6. whistling duck
  7. whistling ducks
  8. whistling face syndrome
  9. whistling for
  10. whistling hare
  11. whistling hares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whistling duck (page history and authors); सिल्ली (Hindi) (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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