different between teal vs mallard

English

Alternative forms

• teale (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *t?le, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling ("teal"; Modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?l/, [ti??]
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)

1. (countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
2. (countable and uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

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Adjective

teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)

1. Having a bluish-green colour

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See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, tale, tela

English

Alternative forms

• maudelard, mawdelard (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English malarde, mawdelare, from Old French malart, mallart (“wild duck”), possibly derived from the Old High German Madelhart (proper name) (whence the English forms maudelard, mawdelard); or alternatively from Old French male, malle (“male”) +? -ard.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæl.??(?)d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæl?d/

Noun

mallard (plural mallards or mallard)

1. A common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

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