Definition of
Teal
- (noun, animal) any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
- (noun, attribute) a blue-green color or pigment
- (adj, all) of a bluish shade of green
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Synonyms of Teal
Alternate forms of Teal
Derivations: teal
Hyponyms: anas crecca, anas discors, anas querquedula, blue-winged teal, bluewing, cyan, garganey, green-winged teal, greenwing
Origin of the word Teal
- 1314, "small freshwater duck," probably from an unrecorded O.E. word cognate with M.Du. teling "teal," M.L.G. telink, from W.Gmc. *taili. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. more
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