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# mallard

«mallard» in Mova's school dictionary: **the most common wild duck; the male (drake) has a shiny…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mallard, mallards or mallard)

### meaning for a pupil

A mallard is the most common wild duck; the male (drake) has a shiny green head, a white ring round the neck and a grey body, and the female is speckled brown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons it is the duck children see on ponds and rivers in Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia and NZ; most farm ducks come from mallards. In history, «Mallard» is also the name of a famous British steam train that set the world speed record for steam in 1938 (126 mph). Phrases: «a pair of mallards», «mallard ducklings».

### examples

- A mallard swam across the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x1)
- The male mallard has a bright green head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x2)
- The female mallard is brown so she is hidden on the nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x3)
- Mallard ducklings followed their mother in a line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x4)
- Don't feed the mallards bread — give them peas or oats instead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x5)
- The steam engine Mallard is the fastest steam locomotive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mallard/#x6)

### note

Plural: mallards, or mallard for a group (like «fish»). Pronounced «MAL-ard». The male is a drake, the female a duck, the young are ducklings. Bread is not good for ducks; it can make them ill and pollute the water.

### In the corpora

- [In spring a mallard mother marches a wobbly line of ducklings across the path while a swan hisses at anyone near its nest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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