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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Golden-eye

/(gōld"'n*ī)/ · Gold·en-eye · IPA
01 n. A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistl…
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    A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (Glaucionetta Islandica) is less common.(Zool.) Also: whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, doucker