muscovy duck

2 definitions found

muscovy duck - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Muscovy duck \Mus"co*vy duck`\ [A corruption of musk duck.]
     (Zool.)
     A duck (Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck,
     often raised in poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is
     native of tropical America, from Mexico to Southern Brazil.
     [1913 Webster]

muscovy duck - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  muscovy duck
      n 1: large crested wild duck of Central America and South
           America; widely domesticated [syn: muscovy duck, musk duck
           , Cairina moschata]