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# eider

«eider» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large sea duck** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural eiders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An eider is a large sea duck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eider/#m1)

2) Eider-down is the very soft feathers of this duck, used to fill quilts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eider/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a princess lies on twenty mattresses and eider-down quilts, so the pea can be felt through them

### examples

- She slept under a warm eider-down quilt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eider/#x1)
- The eider ducks swam in the bay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eider/#x2)
- The bed had twenty eider-down quilts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eider/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.