cinnamon teal

noun

1. a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinnamon teal¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

He set up the communal scope so everyone could see a copper-colored male cinnamon teal duck.

From Seattle Times

They saw cinnamon teal and hummingbirds near the coast rather than inland, and western sandpipers and dunlins were switching to kelp flies on the beach instead of insects in a flooded meadow.

From National Geographic

“That’s a cinnamon teal,” he said.

From Literature

The cinnamon teal waddled onto the bank and preened its feathers.

From Literature

The cinnamon teal is a southern duck, breeding in Arizona, Texas and southern California but so rarely seen north of San Francisco that a gentleman who had killed a straggler near Marysville, when showing it to me, said that he couldn't find a man in the town who could tell him what it was.

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